EDED11406 Teaching Reading

As in Literacy in the Classroom and English Curriculum and Pedagogy, this course emphasises socio-cultural and socio-critical theories of literacy and literacy learning. Thus, planning effective literacy programs is understood to involve thinking about reading in the light of current language and literacy theories which consider literacy as social practice, and which demand that educators work to meet the challenges of equipping students with multi-literacies required for new and changing times. As such, although this course is called Teaching Reading, it discusses reading as an embedded aspect of planning to teach multiliteracies. Education Queensland's Literate Futures Report (2000) highlighted the need for educators to focus on aspects of reading pedagogy in particular; this course is designed to have students engage in activities which will develop their personal and shared understandings of the teaching of reading to a diverse group of students, in the context of current and futures-oriented approaches to planning for literacy teaching and learning.