Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1E-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1E-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

Requisites

Prerequisite
Prerequisite

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in an initial teacher education course.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Critically evaluate and synthesize theoretical knowledge, professional teaching strategies and related resources appropriate to supporting children's reading and writing development.

2.

Evaluate and design appropriate teaching sequences, lesson plans and assessment strategies for fostering student reading and writing development.

3.

Self-evaluate and set goals to improve your professional and personal reading and writing capabilities.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Your learning experiences in this unit will invite you to consider, conceptualise and make connections between - the early development of reading, the Alphabetic Principle as a lens on phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics, the relationship between sound-letter correspondences, phonemes and graphemes, understanding text types and language features of text, fluency, meaning making and comprehension, teaching strategies and approaches fostering reading and writing development, curriculum supports and mandated requirements for teaching in this area, and initial concepts for planning, teaching and assessing reading and writing development.