Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Repeat examination Repeat Exam Literacy - |
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Description Students will critically examine current issues and international research on best practice in literacy. They will identify and critically evaluate the key components of literacy teaching in the primary school. There is a focus on developing a range of essential literacy skills within authentic contexts in developmentally appropriate ways. Within workshops students will have the opportunity to explore a range of pedagogies with particular emphasis on the integrated nature of language learning and to develop knowledge of a range of assessment tools. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Critically examine current issues, curricula, national and international research on best practice in literacy. 2. Conceptualise a broad definition of literacy drawing on national and international research. 3. Reflect on and interrogate their literacy histories. 4. Identify and critically evaluate the key components of effective literacy instruction. 5. Identify, develop and assess essential literacy skills including: phonological awareness, phonics, comprehension, receptive and expressive language skills. 6. Employ a range of pedagogies with particular emphasis on the integrated nature of language learning. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
Literacy component1. National and international definitions of literacy. 2. Literacy histories: personal biographies/Motivation and engagement/self-efficacy. 3. Components of effective literacy instruction 4. Emergent literacy. 5. Instructional models reading: Shared Reading: big books/interactive reading/dialogic reading 6. Word-identification: phonemic awareness; principles of phonics. instruction; alphabetic principle; analytic/synthetic phonics, multisensory phonics, spellingl 7. Handwriting: multi-sensory approaches. 8. Developing comprehension strategies, fluency and vocabulary in the early years. 9. Instructional models writing: Shared/interactive writing/writing workshop. 10. Skill development in Writing: craft, process and mechanics. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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