This unit furthers pre-service teachers' knowledge of children's language and literacy development, focussing on the middle to upper years of primary school. The centrality of children's literature; the critical middle years; the importance of comprehension, and the use of critical and multi-literacies across the curriculum are foregrounded. The unit explores policies and practices for promoting inclusive education for all learners, including EAL/D and CALD learners; students with a disability; gifted and high potential students; and First Nations students. Pre-service teachers will examine and develop literacy programming alternatives for specific language and literacy needs and a variety of student groups and settings.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1.Evaluate key theories and pedagogies suitable for effective language and literacy teaching and learning experiences in middle and upper primary years;
2. Articulate in detail the roles that adults play in children's ongoing literacy development;
3. Design language and literacy activities that articulate clear lesson aims, while integrating applicable curricular content descriptors and cross-curricular elements;
4. Differentiate appropriate teaching and assessment methods suited to a range of complex sociocultural contexts; and
5. Apply contemporary multimodal concepts of language, literacy and literature with children and young people and communicate these effectively to diverse stakeholders.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development

Prerequisites

11918 Language, Literacy and Literature 1 G

Corequisites

Enrolment in EDM001 Master of Primary Teaching.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

11345 Scaffolding Literacy and Language in the Classroom PG

Assumed knowledge

Foundational knowledge of the Australian Curriculum: K-9