Literacy for Education

This unit considers how language and literacy in Early Childhood and the Primary years, in relation to the Victorian curriculum, is learned and taught in a range of educational settings. The unit is informed by a range of theoretical perspectives to consider and interrogate the development of language and literacy in childhood across different social and cultural contexts. This unit articulates the intrinsic relationship between social context, meaning and language and literacy development in Early Childhood and Primary years. Students will be taught to understand how children, as readers and writers, speakers and listeners, use and modify language and literacy for different purposes in a range of contexts. Students will learn how language and literacy does not occur as isolated skills, rather as part of how young children express themselves and they are unique to each child.


The unit embeds the development of personal literacies, and addresses skills, knowledge and understandings of the concepts and structure of English. In this unit students will develop knowledge of the language and literacy continuum in Early Childhood and Primary years. The unit links with the course intentions of strengthening the connection between theory and practice and guaranteeing deep and connected understandings of professional content knowledge and pedagogical approaches for language and literacy learning.