| K1 | <p>Examine and critically assess theoretical perspectives on how students acquire literacy knowledge, skills, and understandings, with a specific focus on the middle and upper primary years.</p> |
| K2 | <p>Explore a variety of children's literature, including multimodal texts, as resources for providing explicit teaching in middle and upper primary classrooms.</p> |
| K3 | <p>Understand that texts are multimodal and that engaging with and creating texts requires an understanding of how different modes combine to convey meaning.</p> |
| K4 | <p>Recognise the role of genre in shaping texts and understand how different genres influence the structure, language, and purpose of both reading and writing.</p> |
| K5 | <p>Identify research-based pedagogical approaches, such as explicit teaching, modelling, and scaffolding, for developing literacy practices that align with how students learn.</p> |
| S1 | <p>Design inclusive and effective learning experiences using explicit teaching practices that support literacy development for all students, including those from diverse social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.</p> |
| S2 | <p>Identify and incorporate teaching and assessment strategies to develop reading, writing (including spelling and grammar), speaking, listening and viewing into middle and upper primary classrooms. </p> |
| S3 | <p>Identify opportunities to integrate other subject areas into literacy teaching, providing explicit reading and writing comprehension instruction that connects literacy skills with discipline-specific content.</p> |
| S4 | <p>Understand how to design a lesson sequence; how to organise and plan lesson content for effective learning and teaching in literacy, language and literature.</p> |
| S5 | <p>Develop a sequence of lessons that incorporate spacing and retrieval, build on each other, meet students where they are at in their learning and help them retrieve past learning and consolidate in long-term memory.</p> |
| S6 | <p>Analyse the effect of literary devices in texts to support critical thinking, reading, writing and contextual understanding.</p> |
| S7 | <p>Engage in critical thinking regarding issues relevant to literacy, language and literature education in the twenty-first century.</p> |
| A1 | <p>Select and annotate quality texts, including multimodal and children's literature, for use in explicit teaching of a specific area of literacy development, providing justification for each text’s relevance and effectiveness in supporting targeted literacy outcomes.</p> |
| A2 | <p>Using knowledge of genre, literary devices current curriculum, teaching approaches, core teaching practices and student learning, design a sequence of inclusive learning experiences for middle to upper primary students, based on a particular genre of text.</p> |
| A3 | <p>Analyse texts from a variety of genres, including multimodal texts, highlighting their features and potential for supporting effective literacy instruction.</p> |