ECCDD202A Literacy Resource Teaching Kit Assessment Event 3 Answer

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Subject Code: ECCDD202A

Subject Name:COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

Course Code: HE20510

Course Name:BACHELOR OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE (BIRTH-5)

Assessment Event 3  Literacy Resource Teaching Kit

Weighting: 40%

Length: Five (5) Resources

Learning outcomes: 3 and 4

For this assessment, you will need to:

  • Develop and/or collect five (5) literacy play-based resources across five (5) areas.
  • The Literacy Resource Teaching Kit must consist of:
    • One (1) x oral language teaching resource
    • One (1 ) x storytelling teaching resource
    • One (1) x writing teaching resource
    • One (1) x digital technology teaching resource
    • One (1) x critical literacy teaching resource
  • For each literacy play-based resource:
    • Provide an outline and rationale for the teaching resource.
    • Identify the specific concepts and learning outcomes that will be developed.
    • Identify the preparation required, how the activity will be delivered to the children and teaching strategies you will need to use to complete the activity.
    • Identify the literacy developmental skills that babies, toddlers, preschoolers and primary school children (Foundation level) will be exposed to.
  • For the oral language teaching resource explain how you will use the resource to explore

Blank’s level of talk

  • For the story telling resource explain how you will guide children through the phases of code breaker, text participant, text analyst and text user. Also describe how you will guide children through the levels of comprehension using the resource
  • For the writing resource explain how you will guide children through the four components of writing to move from the text to writing their own text
  • For the digital technology teaching resource describe how you will use the resource to explore the aspects of teaching Multiliteracies, code breaker, functional user, meaning maker, critical analyser and transformer
  • For the critical literacy teaching resource describe how the resource can be used to teach the three (3) critical literacy approaches of deconstruction, reconstruction and juxtaposition.

Your assessment should show evidence that you have read widely on the topic beyond the supplied readings and texts. Your assessment must use correct referencing, in APA 7th style.

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Introduction

This assignment focuses on the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and its role in all early childhood education, care, quality teaching, and learning (Petit, 2020). Five different activities are planned for different age groups. These activities aims to enhance the learning of the children ages 0-5 years and through the school transition (Davis et al., 2015; DEEWR, 2009; Sumsion et al. 2009).These activities will help in the emotional and social development of kids and are meant for mainly in pre-school years (Salamon, 2011). An educator can contribute important educational experiences for all the children in their care with the help of these activities  (Sheridan et al., 2009). These activities can enable educator to learn, takes the decision for organization of instructions, and design instructional strategies for early childhood curriculum (Saracho, 2006).

Resource 1 Oral Language - Infants

Name&Picture of resource:
 Flashcards
(Source: Aussie Childcare Network)
Resource Kit: Flashcards
Age Group:Infants

Rationale - (refer to literature)
This resource will help infants to recognize things and sounds. Using the flashcard will help to teach infants about different things around them, their names, and recognize sounds. The kids will understand the most important aspects of oral language, i.e. phonics, at a very early age. They will recognize new sounds and alphabets ( Urquijo, 2012).
Explain ways resource can be used& teaching strategies that can be used - (refer to literature)

  • A suggested activity is flashcards. The aim is to develop the communication skills of the kids through verbal and non-verbal communication. The cards are visual aids that have pictures or alphabets. These cards help kids in developing speaking skills, cognitive thinking with memorizing things. 
  • The resources used will be flashcards, which will help kids in learning new words and sounds. 
Literacy Developmental Skills promoted by the resource – (refer to literature)

  • It will help learn alphabets and phonics. 
  • This activity will help them to understand new words and sounds.
  • They will understand how to pronounce the words they are learning when they are said slowly and encourage them to say it repeatedly until they get it right. The flashcard helps in developing the lingual skills, speech, and vocabulary of a child (Dahniarti et al., 2019).
Blank’s Level of Talk – (refer to literature)

  • The early year educators can use this resource to help children to recognize different sounds. The flashcards are colourful so they can catch the attention of the kids and they can easily memorize the things.
  • The resource can be used to develop through Blank’s level of talk in the first set of questions. The kids can visualize the card, and after listening to the educator, they can answer a simple question like what is this? Or they can recognize new objects(Planning with Kids, 2017). 
EYLF Learning Outcomes – (refer to literature)

•Children will develop a strong sense of identity (EYLF 1.1)
•Children will develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities (EYLF 1.3).
•This resource is in line with outcome five, which focuses on effective communication and ensures that they interact verbally and non-verbally for various purposes (EYLF 5.1).

Resource 2Storytelling - Toddlers

Name & Picture of resource:
Story puppets and storybooks
(Source: ALEA ACT, 2016)
Age Group: Toddlers (2-3 years)
Resource Kit: Story puppets and storybooks

Rationale - (refer to literature)
The activity is planned to develop kids as a strong communicator and to develop their expressing skills. Storytelling is an effective tool in getting the children to understand circumstances, characters, and plot. They will learn to identify the parts of the story. Get learning at the end and make up their minds why they liked a certain character. It will enable after story discussion and assess how much the child understands the concept and put thought to it (Agosto, 2016).

Explain ways resource can be used & teaching strategies that can be used - (refer to literature)
  • Resources used will be puppets of different characters of stories. 
  • It gives them a template to make up their own stories, tell them aloud, write them down, and build their creative skills.
Teaching Strategies
•The use of pictures, puppets, and toys goes a long way in making an impact on the child, making them not forget the story and be a part of their learning always. Even using music or musical instruments can make it a fun and interesting activity to drive the point home.
•The story's narration plays an important part for the child to visualize the story and feel that they live as you read it. It will help them grasp the plot easily and get engaged with what is being readout.
•The gestures, mannerisms, and the raising and lowering of the voice will help the child to differentiate each character and how the personality of each of them brings alive a story that they can relate to (Byrne et al., 2019).
Literacy Developmental Skills promoted by the resource – (refer to literature)•It is a great tool to improve listening skills and build on their grammar and language.
•It will also enable children to know more about culture, indigenous, traditional stories that help them learn more about their roots and origins.



Explain how to guide children through the phases of: – (refer to literature)
  • Code-breaking: the educator can help children in recognizing the puppets by giving clues and hints.
  • Text participation and analyst: The kids can role-play a character and can narrate the dialogues. This will help them develop vocabulary and confidence in expressing themselves. 
  • Text User: The educator can also share the dialogues and ask the kids to deliver them. The kids can also narrate the story. 
EYLF Learning Outcomes – (refer to literature)
This activity will help children to share their thoughts, ideas, and views. These activities will fulfil ELYF outcome 5. Children are effective communicators-
  • Children interact verbally and non-verbally for different reasons(EYLF 5.1)
  • They will know to share their view and develop critical thinking skills (EYLF 5.2). 
  • The activity will help them recognize the characters through pictures, digital media sources, and textbooks, thus they can summarize the story in their own words (EYLF 5.3, 5.4). 
  • This activity also focuses on EYLF outcome 2. While role-playing and participation, children develop a sense of belonging to groups and learn to respect & reciprocate others (EYLF 2.1).

Resource 3 Digital Technology – Pre-schoolers

Name & Picture of resource:

 A video of the story with drawing sheets

(Source: Fairy Tales and Stories for Kids)
Resource Kit: A video of the story with drawing sheets. The resource to be used will include a story video with songs and a drawing book. Other resources required are a whiteboard, projector, laptop, and other associated devices.
Age group: Preschooler ( 3 to 5 years)

Rationale - (refer to literature)
This resource is aimed to use technology to enhance the learning experience of children. They will learn to recollect thoughts and ideasthrough visual aids. Apart from it, the children will learn to express themselves and become effective communicators. The resource tohelp enhance their imagination and creativity (Byrne et al., 2019). 

Explain ways resource can be used & teaching strategies that can be used - (refer to literature)
The activity includes a video, songs, and a drawing book related to the story. Videos of different stories can be used to teach different concepts. The drawing book is also included with the resource. The educator can plan various activities like enacting characters, storytelling and role-play. Apart from its discussion sessions can also be planned.
Teaching Strategies:
  • Various activities like role play, gender play, and narration can be planned based on the video. 
  • The students can develop their creativity with the help of drawing books. 
  • Further, the educators can ask children to express their views about the story, their favourite characters, and many more. This will immensely help in developing their cognitive skills (Rogers et al., 2015). 
Literacy Developmental Skills promoted by the resource – (refer to literature)

  • It will improve the listening skills and critical thinking of kids.
  • It will also enable children to know more about other cultures and traditions. They will learn to respect others and develop an understanding (Ewing, 2016; Fellowes et al., 2014). 




Describe how you will use the resource to explore Multiliteracies: – (refer to literature)
Functional User: They will understand to function to attain final goals by relating to the story.
Meaning Maker: children will learn various lessons from the stories, thus can learn to understand the meaning.
Critical Analyser: They will learn to analyse different situation and can use them in their life.
Transformer: They will learn to initiate the change and importance of good deeds.

EYLF Learning Outcomes – (refer to literature)

  • The resource will help in developing critical thinking, transformation, functional use, and code-breaking.  
  • Children become effective communicators and learn to use technologies to access information, investigate ideas, and represented their thinking (EYLF 5.5).
  • This resource supports learning outcome four which states that children are confident and involved learners. With the help of the resource, children develop dispositions for learning such as confidence, creativity, enthusiasm, imagination, and reflexivity (ELYF4.1)
  • Children develop learningby connecting with people, place,  technologies, and natural and processed materials(ELYF 4.4)
  • This activity also relates to outcome 2.1, which states that they will learn to work in the community and respect others

Resource 4 Critical Literacy – Pre-schoolers

Name & Picture of resource:
 worksheets of analytical skills
(Source: Eslkids, 2020)
Resource Kit: It contains various worksheets of analytical skills
Age Group: preschoolers (3-5 years)



Rationale - (refer to literature)
The resource is targeted for preschoolers, and it aims towards developing critical thinking and cognitive skills in the children( Rogers, 2015). These worksheets will help in developing reasoning, analytical skills, and logic.

Explain ways resource can be used & teaching strategies that can be used - (refer to literature)
Resources used will be various worksheets with the picture. These worksheets can be matching picture, finding the odd one out, or searching the similar pictures. 
Teaching Strategies:
The educator can use various sheets which will help in developing the thinking and analytical skills of the kids. The educator can use these sheets to teach opposites, action words, naming words, commonly used things, and many more.
Further, these sheets can be used in teaching many other aspects like seasons, festivals, etc.
For example, the sheet can be used to encircle things used in winters and so on. Thus this will help enhance the knowledge of the kids.
Literacy Developmental Skills promoted by the resource – (refer to literature)

The resource will help in developing cognitive skills, reasoning, and intellectual aspects of the kids (Ewing, 2016; Fellowes et al., 2014).



Describe how the resource can teach 3 critical literacy approaches: – (refer to literature)
Deconstruction:  they will learn to answer questions like what, why when and thus learn construction.
Reconstruction: They will learn to answer various questions and thus learn this critical literacy milestone.
Juxtaposition: They will learn to compare things, opposite and other aspects.
EYLF Learning Outcomes – (refer to literature)
  • This activity will help children in developing analytical skills with critical thinking. 
  • Children develop skills like problem solving, inquiry, researching. Children learn to use their learning. Children develop their learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials(ELYF 4.1, 4.2, 4.4)

Resource 5 Writing – Foundational Year

Name & Picture of resource:

Writing sheets

(Source: 1989 Generation Initiative)

Resource Kit: Writing sheets 
Age Group: Preschoolers (3-5 years)
Rationale - (refer to literature)
The sheets are useful in helping children to write their thought in words. These sheets will also help in recollecting their thoughts and observations of their surroundings.

Explain ways resource can be used & teaching strategies that can be used -  (refer to literature)
Here children will be encouraged to practice writing about themselves, their surroundings, friends, and family. 
Teaching Strategies:
  • The educator can use these sheets to teach kids about expressing their thoughts and writing about themselves, their friends, and their families.
Literacy Developmental Skills promoted by the resource – (refer to literature)

The activity will help kids to learn basic writing skills.This will develop basic writing skills like spellings, correct pronunciation,and correct formation of alphabets (Olivia, 2017). 




How to guide children through the four components of writing: – (refer to literature)
The writing context: They will learn to write about themselves, friends, family and surrounding.
The text form: They will learn new words and writing skills. 
The process and strategies: The will learn to form sentences and express their thoughts in words.
The conventions: They will be accustomed with the  basics of writing .

ACARA Learning Outcomes (Australian Curriculum) – (refer to literature)
Learning Outcomes
  • Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity by knowing to write about them(EYLF 1).
  • Children develop confident self-identities (EYLF 1.3).
  • Children will learn to explore different texts and understand them (EYLF 5.3).
  • They learn to share ideas and meaningful thoughts about others and surroundings (EYLF 5.3).

Conclusion:

The period from birth to age five is recognized as a crucial time for the development of the basis for thinking, behaving, and emotional well-being. It is suggested from child development experts thatin this duration, children develop cognitive,emotional,linguistic, social, and regulatory skills, and these skills also predict their later activity in various domains. The EYLF is based on Belonging, Being, and Becoming and formulated to improve the learning of children from 0-5 years of age. This framework significantly influenced the learning environment of all the children below five years of age. Early childhood teachers are asked to possess an understanding of child development and different issues related to early education.The activities for the children are planned according to different age groups. In this framework, the educator plays an important role in the proper development of early childhood learning skills. There is high accountability for the outcomes and limited resources for professional development.