Primary English Curriculum and Pedagogy

• • Writing, grammar, and the teaching – learning cycle
  • Written grammar: processes
  • Written grammar: participants
  • Written grammar: circumstances
  • Teaching narrative text types
  • Teaching information text types
  • Teaching persuasive text types
  • Classroom strategies for further supporting student writing
  • Teaching Children’s Literature
  • Picturebook forms, categories and meanings
  • Picturebooks: Historical, cultural and social contexts
  • The aesthetic qualities of picturebooks
  • A semiotics of images
  • Literary features in picturebooks
  • Graphic novels and comics
  • Unit Design

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

• TAS-EMT511-Foundations of Primary English

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Children encounter a wide range of texts in their lives. They are expected to read and interpret these texts, and to create their own. An emphasis of study in this subject will be on notions of socio-cultural contexts and their impact on the ways different text types or genres construct meanings; the manner in which texts vary with respect to field, tenor and mode, the features of written texts, and the teaching of text types and grammar. The subject will also involve the investigation of children’s literature, with a deep study of picturebooks, the most prevalent literary form found in K-6 classrooms.

• Teaching Writing (40%)
• Literature Analysis and Lesson Sequence (40%)
• Children's Writing Analysis (20%)

Current study term: 20 Feb 22 to 29 May 22