James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2024

ED3223 - Communicating and Producing Texts in Early Childhood Contexts

Subject Description

This subject focuses on language, literature and producing text in the early years. Pre-service teachers will examine the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing (traditional and multimodal texts). Pre-service teachers examine the shape of the Early Years Learning Framework, the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guidelines and the F-3 Australian Curriculum: English for how they frame a variety of literate practices and children's expressions of themselves in sites of early learning and school. Pre-service teachers also engage in a range of assessment practices and examine moderation and its application to support consistent and comparable judgements of children's learning. Topics covered in this subject include components of teaching writing, genre, punctuation, and grammar, as well as exploring children's literature and other multimodal texts. Pre-service teachers plan sequenced learning experiences with the ultimate goal being that children from diverse backgrounds will become writers and communicators.

Learning Outcomes

• 1. define and implement the concepts and structures underpinning the Early Years Learning Framework, the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guidelines and the F-3 Australian Curriculum: English, particularly those aspects that relate to literature and self-expression
• 3. locate, use and reflect on a repertoire of teaching strategies that support linguistically and culturally diverse groups of children to read, write and express themselves
• 4. set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for children of varying cultural backgrounds, abilities and characteristics
• 5. utilise formative assessment strategies, through informal and formal approaches, including moderation to support consistent and comparable judgements of student learning
• 2. apply curriculum and assessment knowledge to design learning sequences and lesson plans that support diverse groups of children's communication and written expression across traditional and multimodal texts

Subject Assessment

• Written > Proposal - (30%) - Individual
• Oral > Podcast - (20%) - Individual
• Performance/Practice/Product > Portfolio - (50%) - Individual

Note that minor variations might occur due to the continuous subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.

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