Description
This is a 100 level compulsory BTchLn (Primary) course which focuses on the assessment and facilitation of foundational skills for early literacy success (oral language, phonological awareness and letter-sound knowledge) within the New Zealand classroom. Students will learn to apply their knowledge of these skills to the assessment and teaching of reading and writing within the junior school. The course links the New Zealand English curriculum, theoretical underpinnings and research base to the oral and written language assessment and teaching strategies explored.
Learning Outcomes
On the successful completion of the course students will be able to:
• be familiar with the foundations of early reading and writing success (including phonological awareness, letter-sound knowledge, oral language and contextual information)
• understand oral language structure (phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax) and its relationship to early reading, writing and spelling development
• understand how to assess and develop children’s literacy skills in oral language, reading and writing within the classroom
• be familiar with the developmental progressions of learning to speak, read, write and spell
• understand and apply reading and writing approaches (to, with and by learners)
• appropriately assess children’s oral language, reading, writing and spelling skills in the classroom
• articulate prominent theories of oral language, reading, writing and spelling development and apply research and theoretical models to oral language, reading, writing and spelling instruction within the classroom
• use evidence-based explicit teaching strategies to enhance the reading, writing oral language and spelling skills of children at different developmental levels within the classroom
• demonstrate and apply understanding and knowledge of writing conventions.
Course Coordinator / Lecturer
Brigid McNeill
Lecturers
Jane Bates
, Sue Bridges
and Faye Parkhill
Assessment
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Assignment
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25%
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Assignment
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35%
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Formal Test
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40%
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Textbooks
Required Texts
Clay,M.M;
Running records for classroom teachers;
China: Heinemann, 2000.
Ministry of Education;
Effective literacy practice in years 1 to 4;
Wellington,NZ: Learning Media, 2003.
Ministry of Education;
Effective literacy practice in years 5 to 8;
Wellington, NZ: Learning Media, 2006.
Ministry of Education;
The New Zealand Curriculum;
NZ: Learning Media, 2007.
Other readings and links to relevant articles will be provided online in the course Learn (Moodle) site.
For further information see
School of Literacies and Arts in Education.
All TECP110 Occurrences
Next Year
