Task Description:

You will complete a quiz in MyLO to demonstrate your knowledge of language and spelling.

This quiz will be based on content presented in Weeks 1 and 2.

Please note: The quiz will be automatically graded.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 3

Weight:

10 %

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Task Description:

This task requires you to create resources for the teaching and learning of spelling. Here are the steps you should take to create the resources:
1.Decide on a year level and an associated spelling content descriptor from the Australian Curriculum: English.
2.Once you have selected a content descriptor, narrow down your focus to be a specific concept, for example: teaching the morphemic word family "act".
3. Create a teaching resource for teaching your spelling concept. The resource could be: annotated nursery rhymes, annotated poetry (existing poetry or create your own poems), a card game, a board game, annotated picturebook pages. You should physically create this resource, then take photographs of your resource to insert into your assignment (3 photographs should be sufficient).

Your assignment will consist of two parts:
Part 2A: The photographs of your spelling resources, inserted at the beginning of your assignment (300 words equivalent);
Part 2B: A rationale explaining how your teaching resources will effectively teach your selected spelling focus (700 words).

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 5

Weight:

20 %

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Task Description:

You will create a piece of original writing. It may be any genre of your choosing: fantasy, science fiction, thriller, mystery, detective story, satire, gothic, horror, historical fiction, or other (but it must be suitable for primary school students to read). Your writing must include one significant object in it: a door.

Your submission will include two parts:
Part 3A: Your narrative text (1,000 words); and
Part 3B: Your annotated analysis of one concept of language resources for interacting with others (from week 6, 7, or 8) used in your text. For example: you might colour code examples of evaluative language similar to the examples in the lecture from week 8. (200 words equivalent).

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1, 2.3, 2.5

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 9

Weight:

30 %

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Task Description:

This task requires you to choose a mentor text, which can be your creative piece for Assessment Task 3 or any other picture book or literary text of your choosing that is suitable for primary students to plan a lesson to teach writing with a focus on one concept from language resources for connecting ideas or creating cohesive texts (from week 9, 10, 11 or 12). Here are the steps you should take to create the lesson plan.

1. Decide on a year level and an associated language content descriptor from the Australian Curriculum: English.
2. Once you have selected a content descriptor, narrow down your focus to be a specific concept, for example: teaching text connectives.
3. Use a picture book or literary text of your choosing or your creative piece in Assessment Task 3 as a mentor text to plan your lesson to teach the chosen concept.
Your submission will include three parts:
Part 4A: A lesson plan using the teaching learning cycle (500 words);
Part 4B: A rationale explaining how your teaching resources will effectively teach your selected focus (900 words);
Part 4C: Your annotated analysis of your selected concept from language resources for connecting ideas or creating cohesive texts (200 words equivalent).

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 2.1

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 13

Weight:

40 %

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