| K1 | <p>Review and critically evaluate theoretical perspectives on how students develop literacy knowledge, skills, and understandings, with a particular emphasis on the middle and upper years of primary school.</p> |
| K2 | <p>Investigate a wide range of children’s literature, including multimodal texts, as resources for delivering explicit teaching in middle and upper primary classrooms.</p> |
| K3 | <p>Understand the multimodal nature of texts and how different modes—such as visual, auditory, and linguistic elements—integrate to create meaning in reading and writing.</p> |
| K4 | <p>Identify research-based pedagogical approaches, such as explicit teaching, modelling, and scaffolding, for developing literacy practices that align with how students learn to read and write.</p> |
| K5 | <p>Examine the evolving nature of literacies in the twenty-first century, with a focus on national and global contexts and their implications for classroom practice.</p> |
| S1 | <p>Plan inclusive and effective learning experiences that employ explicit teaching practices, ensuring all students, including those from diverse social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, are supported in literacy development.</p> |
| S2 | <p>Design and implement explicit and systematic reading and writing instruction, focusing on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and oral language in middle and upper primary classrooms.</p> |
| S3 | <p>Integrate literacy teaching and learning across the curriculum, ensuring explicit reading and writing comprehension instruction tailored to discipline-specific content.</p> |
| S4 | <p>Develop effective lesson sequences, evidencing the common progression of learning in the planning of each lesson and include scaffolding, modelling, and explicit teaching practices to support literacy, language, and literature development.</p> |
| S5 | <p>Design lessons that connect new information to prior learning to reduce cognitive overload and enhance student understanding.</p> |
| S6 | <p>Incorporate learning objectives, the critical curriculum knowledge students need and identify how ‘mastery’ will be evidenced in lesson plans.</p> |
| S7 | <p>Engage in critical thinking about contemporary issues in literacy education, including the role of explicit and systematic instruction in the twenty-first-century classroom.</p> |
| A1 | <p>Draw on a range of theoretical and practical understandings to construct a collection of texts, including multimodal texts, and provide reflective discussion on text construction in contemporary literacy instruction.</p> |
| A2 | <p>Using current curriculum frameworks and research-based approaches, design a unit of work that includes inclusive, explicit learning experiences for middle to upper primary students, focused on a specific genre or text type. </p> |