Assessment task one – Essay – language and print literacy development
Essential information: 1600 words
About the task: This is an individual essay in which you will discuss the typical patterns of child development in language and early print literacy. To complete this task, you will draw on the teaching materials and essential readings for modules one-four. The recommended readings will be a helpful resource to support students who are aiming for a high mark. We discourage the use of outside resources as these are not necessarily reliable.
You will:
a.define oral language, phonological and phonemic awareness, grapho-phonic decoding, and language comprehension
b.discuss key stages in the development of each of these skills. Please discuss at least three and no more than five stages for each skill. You may condense stages or choose up to five distinct ones. It is particularly important that you are selective with your oral language and language comprehension stages.
c.highlight how each of these skills contributes to students’ print literacy development in the early years of schooling.
Your essay will include a brief introduction and conclusion. Use either Deakin Harvard or APA referencing style to show the sources of your ideas. You can access support for referencing here
The rubric for Assignment one is available here.
There is no template for this task. Whilst the week two essay clip shows an outline to help you understand the recommended structure of this assignment, you will be creating your own essay document. Your assignment should be written in paragraphs. Please don’t include tables or diagrams. You may include subheadings if you wish.
You will explore skills relating to writing an element of your assignment across weeks one to four. The relevant clips for this have also been linked below:
Week two – how to structure your essay
Week three – all about referencing
Week four – checking and submitting your assignment
