Literacy Strategy in Learning | Assignment

Running head: LITERACY STRATEGY IN LEARNING
LITERACY STRATEGY IN LEARNING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Contents
Portfolio Overview.............................................................................................................2
Written Texts.................................................................................................................2
Example 1: written persuasive text..............................................................................3
Teaching Strategy and curriculum links......................................................................4
Example 2: Poem...........................................................................................................5
Teaching Strategy and Curriculum Links....................................................................6
Spoken Texts......................................................................................................................8
Example 1: Documentary Clipping..............................................................................8
Teaching Strategy and Curriculum Links....................................................................8
Example 2: News Reading.............................................................................................9
Teaching Strategy and curriculum links......................................................................9
Visual texts.......................................................................................................................10
Example 1: Public signs...............................................................................................11
Teaching Strategy and Curriculum Links..................................................................11
Example 2: Comic Strip..............................................................................................12
Teaching Strategy and curriculum links....................................................................13
References.........................................................................................................................14
Appendix...........................................................................................................................16

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Portfolio Overview.
In education, literacy is one of the most fundamentally identifiable outcomes that each
student is required to achieve. The popular understanding of literacy is the ability to read and
write, also including alphabet recognition, word recognition, production of words and coherent
sentences, reading and writing (Swanson et al., 2016). Based on these attributes, the literacy
requirements change and evolve over the years and institutional curricula are addressed
appropriately in order to make subtle changes as the student progresses through the years to
provide them with slightly challenging literacy demands from the previous year. This portfolio
takes two examples from each of the three domains and highlights how these resources can be
used for improving the literacy understanding of the students. From these examples, the portfolio
will expand a range of teaching strategies for students of year 6. Each of the strategies will be
specifically catered for the students to be able to understand, analyse and reproduce the concepts
from the texts from written, spoken and visual domains.
Written Texts.
Written texts are the most widely used resources when it comes to literacy training. For
the students of year 6, it is understood that they have already achieved their primary skills and
attributes in reading and writing (Swanson et al., 2016). This portfolio therefore looks at two
texts, one piece of prose and one poem, in order to aid their understanding and analytical skills.

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Example 1: written persuasive text.
Fig 1: Persuasive text for year 6 (Teachwire, 2018)
This resource is an example of a written text that can be replicated and used in the
classroom. Persuasive writings are a form of writing whose primary objective is to promote an
idea to the audience or the reader to persuade them to the main theme or topic that the text is
trying to explain (Stapleton & Wu, 2015). In year 6, it is an important resource because it helps
the students understand the type of language that is being used in order to persuade people to
take a particular stand. At the same time, it also allows the students to learn new vocabulary
(Bearne, 2003).