School Of EducationReading Children's Literature and Digital TextsWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 102798.1
Discipline: TEACHER EDUCATION: PRIMARY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must have successfully completed 240 credit points in the Bachelor of Education (Primary).
About this Unit
In this unit students will gain knowledge and understanding about using children’s literature and digital texts to teach reading, critical literacy, comprehension, media literacy and how texts convey meaning through choices in language (written) and images (visual). It will explore how children’s literature and digital contexts can be used in a K-6 classroom for the teaching of the mechanics of reading, information literacy, comprehension skills (literal, implied, inferential), text design and the social construction of texts. It will develop students deeper understanding of the four resources model of reading and viewing: text decoder, text participant, text user and text analyst. This unit will examine literature experiences and practices in digital environments and the principles of interactivity, connectivity and access that now characterise the reading experience in the digital age. Through the unit, students will be introduced to a language to talk about both written and visual texts by focusing on the meaning making resources used in constructing the texts.
Courses| 1876.1 | Bachelor of Education (Primary) | CURRENT |