Assignment about Underpinning Theories and Approaches for Literacy Planning,

EDUCATION

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 2
Underpinning theories and approaches for literacy planning, teaching and learning........................2
The Big 5 of reading...................................................................................................... 2
Importance of Assessment for learning diagnostic assessment informing teaching and learning practices
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Reading analysis template.................................................................................................. 3
Justification.................................................................................................................... 5
References..................................................................................................................... 8
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Introduction
Underpinning theories and approaches for literacy planning, teaching, and learning
Various underpinning theories and literature are widely used by the educational institutions to
construct new courses and curriculums according to the needs of customers. The new curriculum
stresses on the overall developments of the students of primary classes. Especially, the reading
and writing capability and cognitive developments get most importance. The new curriculum
supports the teachers in performing a diagnostic assessment of the students reading capability.
Regarding this matter, the new curriculum helps in planning, monitoring, as well as assessing the
reading progress of the students. The theories such as constructivism and cognitivism are such
that help in the learning and teaching aspects.
The Big 5 of reading
The Big 5 technique is important as with the help of this specific technique, the teachers can
assess the reading capability of the students more efficiently. The Big 5 model is consisting of
five skills that the children have to adopt for proficiently reading. These five skills are Phonemic
Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. Phonemic awareness can be
said as the ability of the children to hear the sounds in words. In case of strong phonemic
awareness, the children can pull apart or segment words into individual sounds, set sounds
together into words. In this process, the children can also be able to alternate new and fresh
sounds into words. Phonics refers that the children understand the connection between letters and
their represented sounds (Readnaturally, 2018). In case of strong knowledge in Phonics, the
children can be able to understand the prefixes, suffixes, and root words. By connecting sounds
and letter combinations, the children can increase their capabilities to read. Fluency reflects the
reading abilities of children at a pace. In the case of strong fluency of reading, the children can
add expression when they read any materials. Punctuation of the children will significantly
improve in strong fluency of reading. Vocabulary refers to the words numbers that a child
knows. Strong vocabulary includes common words that the children are used in daily language.
Comprehension can be said as a crucial goal reading (Blog.maketaketeach, 2019). If a child has
strong comprehension skill, then he or she can understand what they read.
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Importance of Assessment for learning diagnostic assessment informing teaching and
learning practices
Assessment for learning plays an important role in both teachers and students life. Teachers use
assessment for learning for enhancing the skills of students. Assessment for learning is utilized
by teachers to motivate their students. Teachers when focuses on assessment for learning it
automatically transforms the atmosphere of the classroom. It engaged the teachers to become a
part of students’ success. It helps the teachers in developing various strategies that will help out
the students in moving forward with learning. Assessment for learning provides immediate
feedback to the students and their parents. Moreover, it helps out the teachers to bridge the gap
where the students are lacking (readingrockets, 2019).
It permits the teachers to determine their students' competency and weakness. Primarily it is used
to diagnose the complexities of students regarding their studies. After knowing their difficulties
it will help them in curriculum and lesson guides. These types of teaching assessment are
required to be followed by the teachers to enlighten their students' future (allroads, 2018).
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