| K1 | <p>Investigate the role of literacy, language and literature in primary education with a specific focus on the early primary years and understand research into how explicit teaching, modelling, and scaffolding support literacy learning. </p> |
| K2 | <p>Examine how phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and oral language underpin the development of reading and writing.</p> |
| K3 | <p>Investigate effective assessment practices and tools for measuring and supporting student literacy development.</p> |
| K4 | <p>Understand current curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment frameworks for strategic literacy planning.</p> |
| K5 | <p>Use a range of teaching strategies plus knowledge of how students learn along with curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning sequences and lesson plans.</p> |
| K6 | <p>Understand the role of critically reflecting on personal beliefs and current research to enhance and align teaching practices with evidence-based literacy instruction.</p> |
| K7 | <p>Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of common neuromyths and the impact of their perception.</p> |
| S1 | <p>Critically analyze and apply research findings to inform and improve classroom literacy instruction, ensuring that teaching practices are grounded in proven methodologies</p> |
| S2 | <p>Implement explicit teaching and learning strategies for the teaching of reading, writing, spelling, grammar, oral language and visual literacies in the early primary years.</p> |
| S3 | <p>Use assessment data to inform literacy teaching planning and practices by identifying student strengths and areas for improvement.</p> |
| S4 | <p>Critically evaluate personal beliefs about literacy instruction in relation to current research, allowing for the refinement of teaching practices and alignment with evidence-based strategies.</p> |
| A1 | <p>Critically analyse and reflect on classroom literacy instruction in alignment with contemporary literacy research. </p> |
| A2 | <p>Analyse a writing sample against the curriculum framework, using effective assessment tools to design a targeted learning sequence that incorporates explicit teaching strategies to develop key literacy skills and advance the learner to the next level.</p> |