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Language & Literacy: F to Year 2 (ECP) (EDUC91069) // Further information
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Semester 2
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Prescribed texts
Hill, S. (2021). Developing Early Literacy: Assessment and teaching (3rd ed.). Eleanor Curtain.
Recommended texts and other resources
Bromley, T. & Turner, K. (2019). Drawing and writing: How drawing supports the emergent writer in the early years of schooling. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 24, (2), 10-13.
Callow, J. (2016). Viewing and doing visual literacy with picture books, Practical Literacy. 21(1), 9 – 12.
Clay, M. (1991). The development of processing strategies. Becoming literate: The construction of inner control. (pp. 288 – 316). Heinemann.
Cox, R., Feez, S. & Beveridge, L. (Eds.). (2019). The alphabetic principle: an orientation: PETAA.
Gibbons, P. (2015). Scaffolding Learning, Teaching English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom (2nd Ed.). Heinemann.
Edwards-Groves, C. (2014). Talk moves: A repertoire of practices for productive classroom dialogue. PETAA PAPER 195. Newtown, Sydney: Primary English Teaching Association Australia.
Heath, S. B. (1982). What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school. Language in Society, 11(1), 49 – 76.
Konza, D. (2014). Teaching Reading: Why the “Fab Five” should be the “Big Six”. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 39(12), 153 – 169.
Mercer, N. & Dawes, L. (2018). The development of oracy skills in school-aged learners. Cambridge Papers in ELT Series, 1 – 22.
Oakley, G. & F., & J. (2016). Learning to spell: The beginnings. A closer look at spelling in the primary classroom (pp. 35–65). Primary English Teaching Association of Australia
Parkin, B. (2020). Reading models: putting the jigsaw together. PETAA Paper 221, 1 – 30.
Raban, B. (2014). Talk to think, learn and teach. The Journal of Reading Recovery, 1, 5 – 15.
Stahl, K.D. (2011). Applying new visions of reading development in today’s classrooms. The Reading Teacher, 65 (1), 52-5-6
State Government of Victoria. (2018). Literacy Teaching Toolkit.
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/Pages/default.aspx - Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary) - Links to additional information
Melbourne Graduate School of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024