Literacy Across the Continuum 2

This unit aims to enhance Pre-service Teachers’ (PSTs) understanding of effective pedagogical practices for literacy education in relation to evidence-based research. PSTs will build on their knowledge and skills in planning and sequencing curriculum content and tasks according to how children learn best. In addition, pre-service teachers will expand their repertoire of teaching students with a range of learning abilities and interests, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The pedagogies underpinning the teaching of speaking and listening, reading, viewing, and writing, will be evidenced across a range of contexts. Through in-class discussions and practical application, pre-service teachers will extend their understanding and skills across a range of pedagogies, including structured literacy instruction, explicit teaching, spacing, retrieval practices and multi-tiered systems of support.



This unit continues the development of personal literacies and addresses understandings of the concepts, substance and the structure of English language. Furthermore, this unit links with the course intentions of guaranteeing that graduate teachers have deep and connected understandings of the content they are teaching and the pedagogical approaches for implementing state/territory and/or The Australian Curriculum, in relation to the changing nature of education in a rapidly evolving global context.