Literacy Intervention Strategies

This subject is not offered in 2014.

Attendance at all classes (tutorial/seminars/practical classes/lectures/labs) is obligatory. Failure to attend 80% of classes will normally result in failure in the subject.

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For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.

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This subject reviews contemporary theories and explanations of learning disabilities in literacy and examines reading as an information processing process. It examines how fluent readers read; levels of fluent text processing, oral language knowledge during reading, using attention while reading, short term memory capacity, metacognitive aspects, readers' self perceptions of reading; learning to read; pre-literate developments phonological, orthographic and oral language development, parent-child shared reading experiences; developmental trends in metacognitive knowledge, self-efficacy as readers and the attribution of success and failure. Reading difficulties are explored in terms of the information processing developmental frameworks: types of reading disabilities, verbal-linguistic explanations of reading disability, memory processes and reading disabilities, verbal-linguistic explanations of reading disability, memory processes and reading disabilities, motivation to read difficulties; visual explanations of reading disability, relevant neurological explanations and the implications for diagnosis and intervention; literacy diagnostic pathway. Procedures for engaging readers in the assessment process are explored; describing, analysing, explaining and reporting reading disabilities. Implementation of a reading intervention is examined: relevant prose reading strategies, the oral language knowledge, memory retrieval and verbal reasoning strategies necessary to support reading, teaching orthographic knowledge and individual word reading.

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3 written assignments, 2,000 words each (33.3 per cent each assignment)

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.