Folio of literacy teaching strategies

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Folio of literacy teaching strategies

Value: 60% Due Date: 04-Jun-2019 Return Date: 26-Jun-2019 Length: 3000 words Submission method options: EASTS (online) Task back to top Select a unit topic and two examples each of written, spoken and visual texts relevant to the topic and the stage of learner Ensure that you can provide copies of selected examples in your assignment OR provide links (in the case of online texts) or provide descriptions where appropriate (in the case of spoken texts that will be produced in classroom activity) Select strategies that you might use to teach curriculum literacies with the selected texts, ensuring that you address the components of literacy effectively and in alignment with the nominated unit topic and stage Six strategies in total. For each strategy: Using one of your texts, describe how you would engage students in the strategy through a series of steps Acknowledge the source Using the multiliteracies framework and the four resources model, explain what aspects of literacies the strategy would be used to address Relate these to the literacy learning needs of a diversity of students Explain what information the strategy could provide when used for assessment purposes Sequence the strategies in the folio to reflect your understanding of how scaffolding would be provided across the topic Strategies selected should establish your engagement with learning materials in this subject and may also incorporate understandings gained from your own independent reading and searching.

Rationale back to top This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s: be able to know the subject-specific literacy practices of their teaching areas be able to employ a range of strategies for literacy instruction be able to know how to sequence strategies to scaffold effective literacy be able to be confident to teach about texts and their use to the diversity of students be able to articulate how strategies can be used for assessment be able to have facility with using digital technologies for literacy development Students need to develop a repertoire of literacy teaching strategies and be able to articulate how each addresses the literacy learning needs of students and informs effective instruction in content areas. This will encompass the following learning outcomes: Know the subject-specific literacy practices of their teaching areas. Be able to employ a range of strategies for literacy instruction. Know how to sequence strategies to scaffold effective literacy. Be confident to teach about texts and practices with those texts to the diversity of students. Can articulate how strategies can be used for assessment. Have facility with using digital technologies for literacy development. Marking criteria and standards back to top Employs a range of useful and appropriate strategies promoting literacy learning, and enabling assessment, in a specific curriculum context Justifies and relates strategies to aspects of literacy learning frameworks; sequences folio tasks effectively to promote collaborative, student-directed learning Texts featured and/or developed by learners are suited to the stated curriculum stage and content area, engaging, well balanced, and meaningful in terms of contemporary pedagogy Digital technology is featured in the strategies and/or focus texts; a range of literacy learning needs is considered such as those of EAL/D learners Work is presented professionally and structured effectively. Accurate use of APA 6th edition referencing is used. The submission is within 10% of the word limit.