Literacy Across the Curriculum
Duration:
1 Teaching Period
Unit Code:
EDU80016
Contact Hours:
Recommended 12 hours of study per week
About this unit
This unit provides pre-service teachers with a range of skills and understandings related to literacy that are now a standard component of the contemporary curriculum environment in Australian schools. By engaging with student-directed inquiry in a range of curriculum areas, pre-service teachers will develop and articulate understanding of the literacy demands and conventions of these areas, and plan for literacy development.
Content
- What is literacy? What does it mean to be literate?
- Multiliteracies
- New media and literacy
- Subject area literacies
- Literacy as a general capability
- Effective teaching of literacy
- Effective assessment of literacy
- Relevant national and/or state or territory curriculum
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