English 2: Language and Literacy Development (EDEE413)
Trimester 2 / 2014

Texts

y separately published work icon Dragon Moon Carole Wilkinson , Fitzroy : Black Dog Books , 2007 Z1365380 2007 single work children's fiction children's fantasy (taught in 1 units)

'Ancient China. Han Dynasty. Ping and Kai have travelled far, but their journey is not yet over. Danger stalks them. Ping must find Kai a safe place. But how?

'When a hidden message from Danzi makes the way clear, Ping knows that once again the journey of a thousand li begins with a single step.' (Publisher's blurb)

Description

This unit extends students' knowledge of curriculum, pedagogy, and the design of learning towards specific applications for language and literacy development in the primary school. Students are introduced to techniques for programming the teaching of written and multimodal texts to address relevant curriculum outcomes. Students apply knowledge about text types and grammar relevant to the primary school curriculum through a text-based literacy pedagogy.

Assessment

Essay: 30%

Programming Task (programming a educational unit of work): 50%

Unit Test: 20%

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