Week 7 (literacy across KLAs)

Question 1

What is literacy?

Answer 1

Literacy is the ability to understand and evaluate meaning across R/W/S/L/V/R, it involves building skills across discipline areas to effectively participant in society.

Question 2

What genres are usually associated with the science KLA? What are some challenges to literacy in science and teaching implications as a result?

Answer 2

Genres: procedure, factual description, information report.
Challenges: quality textbooks, scientific terminology, scientific language similar to everyday language e.g. forces.
Teaching: time for vocab and talk, teach reading strategies for scientific texts, develop knowledge.

Question 3

What genres are usually associated with the HSIE KLA? What are some challenges to literacy in science and teaching implications as a result?

Answer 3

Genres: factual recount, discussion, exposition.
Challenges: discipline knowledge, vocabulary, textbook quality, research skills.
Teaching: good resources, explicit modelling how to read variety of texts - maps, graphs, timelines etc., develop understanding that meaning and perspectives can change over time based on place/culture etc.

Question 4

What are the cross curriculum priorities? Use an example and link it to 3 KLAs.

Answer 4

• ATSI histories and cultures
• Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
• Sustainability.
  Sustainability connects to:
• English (communicating perspectives, sharing knowledge).
• Science (investigating the environment, interactions between ‘spheres’ and systems).
• HSIE (global issues, changes in society, multiple perspectives of sustainability).