Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description This module is focused on the development of language, literacy and culture in early years’ settings with a particular focus on the uniqueness, creativity and agency of the individual child. Students will explore contemporary conceptualisations of literacy and what it means to be literate in an information age. Students will develop a critical awareness of a range of national and international perspectives underpinning early literacy development. There is a strong focus throughout the course on the development of enabling environments to facilitate children’s development and progression in oral language, reading and writing in authentic contexts/ways. Students will explore a variety of practical strategies and methodologies to foster the holistic development of early literacy skills and dispositions for learning. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Explore contemporary conceptualisations of literacy in early childhood settings 2. Develop a critical awareness of a range of national and international perspectives underpinning early literacy development 3. Develop knowledge of a range of pedagogies and methodologies to foster and facilitate the development of oral language, reading and writing 4. Demonstrate a secure knowledge of a range of appropriate assessment practices and tools to monitor and support literacy development in the across the continuum of early childhood 5. Create learning environments to promote the uniqueness and creativity of the individual child | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Perspectives on early literacy development• Historical perspectives on early literacy • Emergence of ‘emergent literacy’ • Socio-cultural perspectives on literacy development • Personal perspectives: literacy learning histories • Defining literacy in the 21st CenturyFacilitating the development of early literacy:Babies, toddlers and pre-school children • Forms of Shared Reading o Dialogic Reading: before, during and after reading: babies, toddlers and pre-school children o Language Experience Approach • Enabling learning environments: creating, observing, planning, resourcing and differentiating for shared readingChildren’s literature: Babies, toddlers and pre-school children• Choosing children’s literature for the early years • Visual literacy and picture books • Enabling learning environments Creating, observing, planning, resourcing and differentiating in relation to children’s literatureOral language development: babies, toddlers and pre-school children• Phonological awareness • Vocabulary development • Interactions: Listener/speaker relationships/scaffolding • Oral story telling: developing and sustaining narratives from imagination; re-telling narratives of stories read aloud • Enabling learning environments: creating, observing, planning, resourcing, differentiating in relation to oral language developmentWriting development: toddlers and pre-school children• Stages of writing development • Nurturing creativity/uniqueness • Writing as mark making/communicating • Fine motor skills/multisensory approaches to mark making/writing • Shared writing • Enabling learning environments: Creating, observing, planning, resourcing, differentiating in relation to writing developmentAssessment• Authentic tasks • Observation • Anecdotal records • Narrative assessment; Literacy stories • Enabling authentic literacy assessment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List
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Other Resources 37761, Paper, Flewitt, R.S., 2013, Literacy: A broader vision: TACTYC Occasional Paper, http://www.tactyc.org.uk/occasional-papers.asp, 37762, Video Talk, 0, “The Linguistic Genius of Babies,”, video talk on TED.com, a TEDxRainier event, www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies.html, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||