Teaching Literacy a lecture at CSU
On Monday the 23rd February I had the pleasure of attending the launch of the K-12 Education program at Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie Campus. How exciting for Port Macquarie to have a permanent university campus for 2000 students. Current education students and local educators were invited to the launch where Dr Noella Mackenzie spoke on teaching literacy in the K-12 classroom. My notes and thoughts on the lecture. As an educator it is important to understand the continuity of learning. Any classroom can contain students with a range of reading ages. For example one year I had a year 4 class (9yo) with a reading age range of 5-16years. In secondary there are often students who struggle with reading and there may be students with low reading ages. So, it is crucial that all teachers primary and secondary have an understanding of the continuity of learning in literacy regardless of specialty. Many students can learn to read with limited vocabu...