ECL310 - Multiliterate Learners in Middle Years Environments
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Elizabeth Little |
Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E200, E330, E334, E359 |
Previously: | Developing Language and Literacy: The Middle Years |
Prerequisite: | For E359 students must have passed unit ECL210 For E334 students must have passed unit ECE330 |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
This is the third in a 4-unit sequence designed to prepare contemporary primary school teachers of language, literacy and literature. This unit examines the development of speaking and listening, reading and writing, and viewing and creating in the middle years of primary schooling (years three to six). It explores print literacy development in the middle years of school, together with a range of broader literacies, including digital, multimodal, and visual literacies.
In this unit, pre-service teachers engage with a variety of literacy learning theories, assessments, and pedagogical approaches, learning to justify how, when, and why to utilise different approaches across their classroom programs. They learn to plan effective lessons, units, and programmes for diverse middle years language, literacy, and literature learners.
Through weekly blog posts, pre-service teachers make connections between their unit understandings and their personal literacy learning, and practice ethical and professional online communication.
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Demonstrate knowledge of key theories and practices associated with teaching literacy in the middle years | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Assess students in the middle years, set learning goals providing achievable challenges, and plan for and implement teaching strategies for those students | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management |
ULO3 | Design, plan, evaluate and refine a major lesson sequence utilising children’s literature to teach and assess language, literacy, and literature effectively | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO6: Self-management GLO7: Teamwork |
ULO4 | Reflect upon, evaluate and effectively communicate planning rationales for teaching, learning and assessment | GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO6: Self-management |
ULO5 | Identify and implement strategies to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in the teaching profession and middle years literacy classrooms | GLO3: Digital literacy |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Writing assessment and planning profile | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 2 - Literature-based planning sequence | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 3 - WordPress blog | 800 words or equivalent | 20% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ECL310 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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