EDU20001 Developing Literacy Assignment

Assignment overview

Teaching English language and literacy in early childhood and primary years requires an understanding of how to utilise and synthesise theories, content knowledge, effective pedagogical practices, language and literacy enriched learning environments, and relevant Australian curriculum and learning frameworks. Developing learning experiences or lessons that are appropriate to student interests, strengths and needs are important as it will help to provide opportunities for all students in early years education (from birth to 8 years of age) to read, write, listen, and speak in a variety of contexts.

For the purpose of this assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of the process of teaching phonological awareness in relation to supporting children through the phases of their early reading development and early writing development. This will include an evaluation of teaching phonological awareness, a learning experience and a teaching resource.

Your work should be supported by at least 10 references. Your work should demonstrate relevant links made to either the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) or the Australian Curriculum (or state equivalents), the set-text Fellowes and Oakley (2020), and other relevant scholarly and professional sources. You can also refer to the learning materials throughout this unit for additional sources and conduct a search using the Swinburne Library database for relevant sources to support your work his assignment will be in the form of an essay. The topic of this essay is centred on the teaching of phonological awareness in support of children’s emergent and early reading and writing development.

For this essay, you are required to choose a specific group 3 to 4 year olds to focus on. In addition, references to a relevant sub-outcome under Outcome 5 from the Early Years Learning Framework

Your essay must address the following components:

Using research literature and relevant sources, critically discuss the importance of teaching phonological awareness in relation to children’s emergent and early reading and writing development.

Describe and evaluate a learning experience that supports the development of phonological awareness in early years literacy education.Describe and evaluate a teaching resource that supports the development of phonological awareness in early years literacy education.

Your essay can be structured as follows:

Introduction (approximately 100 words):

Introduce the topic.
Include a thesis statement.
Outline how you intend to address the topic in your essay.

Body of the essay (approximately 1600 words)

This section will consist of a series of paragraphs through which you will address the components of the essay.
Each paragraph in this section should begin with a topic sentence that introduces the main idea or theme of that paragraph. Typically, the topic sentence and the discussions would be supported with a reference to scholarly or professional source(s).

It would be ideal to try and keep to one main idea or theme per paragraph. In addition, avoid writing paragraphs that only consist of one or two sentences.

Ensure that there is a cohesive flow of ideas throughout the series paragraphs.