EPE520: Developmental Learning and Pedagogy Assessment 2022

Running head: EPE520: Developmental Learning and Pedagogy
EPE520: Developmental Learning and Pedagogy
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Part 1: Design of Series of Learning Activities
Overview of Learning Program and Student Cohort (1/2 page)
Year
level: 2
Topic/Theme:
English
Curriculum Learning Areas:
Language, literature and literacy
Length of
Program:
Description of Student Cohort: The students belong to an inclusive classroom in an
Australian school’s early education setting, grade 2. The demographic of the students
are unequally divided with Aboriginal and torres strait islander children forming the
minority, yet a significantly large enough number with 36% of the class strength.
Learning and Assessment Focus:
Curriculum Content Descriptions:
The English curriculum for year 2 according to the Australian Curriculum is focused on
the holistic development of language, literature and literacy skills. This curriculum
encourages the students to communicate with peers, teachers, students from other
classes as well as members of the community. The curriculum incorporates a variety of
texts and resources that the children read for enjoyment as well as education. The books
include multiple traditional oral texts, picture books as well as printed and digital stories
and chapters, verses, poetry etc. Special focus is given on the aboriginal and Torres
strait islanders of Australia.
The language aspect of the curriculum focuses on language variation and change, use of
language for interaction, text structure and organisation, idea development and
expression and word and phonic knowledge.
The literature aspect of the curriculum focuses on developing the child’s skills in
literature, a story context, literature response, examination as well as creation
The literacy aspect of the curriculum focuses on developing the child’s interactive
abilities with others while focusing on the aspect of literacy development by using
connecting words to build a small sentence while working in groups.
Overall, the curriculum for 2nd grade is a well defined, well organised and structurally
sound framework for the children to ensure their holistic development in English
language, literature and literacy skills, which are globally identified as key mediators of
complete educational achievements.
Learning Intentions (objectives): Students are learning to:
 Describe words and sentences
 Demonstrate the ability to connect words with sentences and identify which
words go with which sentences.
 Understand the principles behind using a certain word in a certain context with its
proper pronunciation (e.g. I lost my BAT, vs I BET you that you will lose the game)
 Connect words with pictures.
Success Criteria (assessment): Students will:
 Learn how to interpret a pre-built story.
 Learn how to develop a story on their own based on what resources and materials
they have been provided
 Develop content with material support from the environment.

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 Develop outcomes while maintaining proper team dynamics.
 Display ability to produce and present their outcomes to the whole class.
Overview of Learning Sequence:
Learning Focus Learning Activities/Resources etc
1Language Topic organization / Pictures from magazines or printed
from the internet.
2Literature Story cheeseburger / A colourful picture template of a
cheeseburger.
3Literacy Marching words / a list of 10-15 words from all the all the
alphabets each.
4
Series of 3 Sequential Learning Activities
Learning Activity 1: Picture organization
Topi
c:
Curriculum Content
Description: this activity is
focused on developing the
language skills of the child
incorporating the aspects of
language variation and
change, use of language for
interaction, text structure and
organisation, idea
development and expression
and word and phonic
knowledge.
Learning Intentions: Students are learning
To build a comprehensive story using pre written texts
and words while at the same time developing their word
and phonemic knowledge and interaction skills by
presenting and reading out the study to the class
Success Criteria: Students can
Identify which text and which
pictures match
Solve the problem of matching as
well as identification of missing
words from the text.
Demonstrate the ability to read the
words and the text in the class with
minimal errors.
Description of Learning Activity (several paragraphs):
Several pictures from magazines or downloaded and printed from the internet will be given to
the students. The students will also be provided with a series of cards that contain texts in
correlation to the pictures. The text will have comprehensive structure but will also have
blanks in between which the student has to fill with words that are provided to him in a chart.