Overview

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.

Requisites

Prerequisites
EDU70007 English in Primary School

Rule
EDU70007 English in Primary School
AND
EDU60015 Supervised Professional Experience 1
OR
EDU60044 Supervised Professional Experience 1

Corequisites
EDU70016 Supervised Professional Experience 2
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Quarter 4
Location
Online
Start and end dates
07-October-2024
08-December-2024
Last self-enrolment date
07-October-2024
Census date
25-October-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
08-November-2024
Results released date
14-January-2025
Quarter 1
Location
Online
Start and end dates
20-January-2025
23-March-2025
Last self-enrolment date
20-January-2025
Census date
07-February-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
21-February-2025
Results released date
15-April-2025
Quarter 2
Location
Online
Start and end dates
14-April-2025
15-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
14-April-2025
Census date
02-May-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
16-May-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Quarter 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
07-July-2025
07-September-2025
Last self-enrolment date
07-July-2025
Census date
25-July-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
08-August-2025
Results released date
30-September-2025
Quarter 4
Location
Online
Start and end dates
29-September-2025
30-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
29-September-2025
Census date
17-October-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
31-October-2025
Results released date
13-January-2026

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Examine the teaching of literacy across the curriculum using theory, research and relevant links made to the Australian Curriculum (or a relevant State/Territory curriculum document)
  • Compare and contrast the literacy demands and opportunities of two different curriculum learning areas using the Australian Curriculum (or a relevant State/Territory curriculum document) and relevant literature to support
  • Develop and evaluate a cross-curriculum lesson plan that embeds literacy learning and development with relevant links made to the Australian Curriculum (or a relevant State/Territory curriculum document)
  • Critically discuss the key ideas of sustaining literacy teaching and learning in the 21st century
  • Apply knowledge of theory and research to the teaching of literacy across the curriculum with references made to Australian Curriculum

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Activities
Various		4.00 12 weeks 48
Unspecified Activities
Various		5.50 12 weeks 66
TOTAL150

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PresentationIndividual 50% 1,2,3 
Production AssignmentIndividual 50% 4,5 

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

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.