Course Details for Diploma in Christian Education
Distance Learning campus
Semester 2, 2019
Orientation: 22 - 26 July
Semester begins: 22 July
Intensives Week: 19 - 23 August
Mid-Term Break: 30 September - 11 October
Labour Day: 28 October
Semester ends: 22 November
853.515 Developing Literacy
Literacy is foundational to citizenship in society. This course introduces early literacy teaching and learning strategies encompassing oral, written and visual forms of English. The relationship between making meaning and creating meaning in Primary English across levels 1 and 2 of the New Zealand curriculum and Te Whariki is clarified. English as an Additional Language (EAL/D) teaching theory is introduced.
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