Course | Early Literacies Course

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Original price: NZ$132 (excluding GST).

The price listed reflects the Enrol Yourself option. Other pricing options for this course are available.

• Enrol Others and Yourself: NZ$112.20 per person (excluding GST)
• Enrol Others Not Yourself: NZ$112.20 per person (excluding GST)

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This course explores the development of literacies in the early years and how teachers can support young children to understand and express themselves in multiple ways. It will provide participants with the tools to reflect upon and apply practices and strategies in their own unique local early childhood education contexts.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand key principles relating to literacy in early childhood education (ECE) contexts
• To identify multiple ways that young children engage with literacies within everyday interactions in ECE settings
• To relate and apply course content to teachers’ own practices around supporting and extending early literacies in local ECE contexts

Outcomes:

Throughout the course, you will be supported to put your learning into action in your own context of practice through undertaking a case study of a particular child.

This Course Includes Interviews With:

• Professor Mary Kalantzis
• Professor Bill Cope
• Professor Claire McLachlan
• Speech-language therapist Hana Tuwhare

Case Studies of Practice:

• Elim International Kids Early Childhood Centre
• Stokes Valley Kindergarten

What You'll Learn on This Course

• Part 1: Core principles of early literacies
Explore the multiple forms of literacy in early childhood education settings, including embodied, spoken, and written literacies, including:
- The importance of teachers partnering with families to understand and build on home literacy practices
- How literacies are situated in cultural practices and the importance of affirming indigenous parenting practices and giving children a sense of connection, identity, and belonging

• Part 2: Embodied, nonverbal literacies
This part explores some of the ways that children learn to understand and express their meaning in embodied, nonverbal ways. This includes:
- Connections between embodied literacies and everyday play and social interactions
- Ways that early childhood teachers can encourage children to develop embodied literacies
The role of digital technologies in supporting children to make and share meaning

• Part 3: Spoken and written literacies
This part focuses on ways that early childhood teachers can encourage children to develop spoken and written literacies through everyday interactions. This includes:
- Oral languages, including speaking and listening, vocabulary and comprehension
- Phonological awareness, or building awareness of sounds in words by playing with rhythm, syllables, rhyme, and phonemes (sounds)
- Print awareness, or building awareness that written symbols carry meaning, and that sounds correspond with letters

• Part 4: The power of stories
This part examines why stories are such an important aspect of literacy for young children. This includes:
- Different ways that children might experience stories in ECE settings in oral, written, and embodied ways, including their role as storytellers
- How ECE teachers can support children’s learning about and through stories

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