GED0137D

Assessment and instructional approaches in reading

Lecturer-in-charge to be advised

8 points
* 2 hours per week
* Second semester
* Gippsland/Distance

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should have developed skills in critically assessing and evaluating the level/s and types of reading done by children, recognising major factors involved in a child's reading development and accordingly planning to extend that development; critical understanding of the range of measures both informal and formal which are included in these; the ability to use a suitable array of measures with a child in order to identify areas of strength and weakness in reading and to provide assistance appropriately; the ability to be able to critically evaluate their own measures and reflect on the usefulness of these and compare current conceptual models of the reading process.

Synopsis In this subject students will be assisted to recognise and assess characteristics of literacy growth in children to the stage of maturity. A wide range of modern assessment techniques will be discussed across the major dimensions of language-learning in the context of classroom, whole school and home. Students will develop and apply their own language assessment measures to obtain clear understandings of children's literacy development in a practical situation. Students will also evaluate the effectiveness of their own measures.

Assessment Two essays (1000 words each): 25% each
* Report (2000 words): 50%

Prescribed texts

Curriculum Corporation A curriculum profile for Australian schools: English Curriculum Corporation, 1994
Clay M M Reading recovery: A guide book for teachers in training Heinemann, 1994
Victorian Board of Studies Curriculum and standards framework: English VBOS, 1995