MAE2240 Lecture Notes - Orthography, Phonics, Phonological Awareness
28 May 2018
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Why is this unit important?
'Being able to read is an important foundation, not only for school-based learning, but also for
productive and fulfilling participation in society.' (National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy,
2005)
• Gives students the best possible start in literacy learning
• Literate practices
• Social justice elements
• Teacher accountability and scrutiny
Recoedatios…
• Teachers be equipped with teaching strategies
• Teachers provide systematic, direct and explicit phonics instruction
• Comprehensive, diagnostic and developmentally appropriate assessments of every child
• Prepare student teachers to teach reading
• Graduate teachers need high personal standards of literacy and numeracy as well as subject
content knowledge and teaching skills.
Three stands of the Australian English Curriculum:
1. Language: Knowledge about English
2. Literature: Informed appreciation of literature
3. Literacy: Evolving repertoires of English usage
Beginnings & Basics; the basics of literacy
• Grapheme-phoneme correspondence
• Phonological & phonemic awareness
• Alphabetic knowledge
• Spelling
• Conventions of punctuation
• Comprehension
'Explicit teaching and consolidation of the 'basics' should be important and routine aspects of the
national English curriculum, embedded in authentic language, literary and literacy tasks throughout
the school years.'
Beliefs and understandings
Research suggests that the teaching of reading is most effective when there is a balanced focus on
the development of children's oral language, phonological awareness, phonic and orthographic
knowledge, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
EXAM:
• Phonics
• Spelling
• Writing
• Multi-literacies
• Other…
Organising Frameworks:
Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
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Document Summary
"being able to read is an important foundation, not only for school-based learning, but also for productive and fulfilling participation in society. " (national inquiry into the teaching of literacy, Literate practices: gives students the best possible start in literacy learning, social justice elements, teacher accountability and scrutiny. Three stands of the australian english curriculum: language: knowledge about english, literature: informed appreciation of literature, literacy: evolving repertoires of english usage. Beginnings & basics; the basics of literacy: grapheme-phoneme correspondence, phonological & phonemic awareness, alphabetic knowledge, spelling, conventions of punctuation, comprehension. "explicit teaching and consolidation of the "basics" should be important and routine aspects of the national english curriculum, embedded in authentic language, literary and literacy tasks throughout the school years. " Research suggests that the teaching of reading is most effective when there is a balanced focus on the development of children"s oral language, phonological awareness, phonic and orthographic knowledge, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
