The course has as its central core the deepening of knowledge about literacy teaching and learning in the upper primary. You will have the opportunity to consider the data from both school-based and system-based sources and how this can be used to both differentiate the curriculum in literacy for learners and set goals and plan for literacy learning in the upper primary school. Special consideration will be given the resources in for reading in the upper primary with both an overview of the field of children's literature with a focus on specialised texts such as poetry, non fiction, multimodal texts and listening texts such as podcasts. A focus on the EAL/D learner in the upper primary classroom and their specific needs for the building of cognitive academic language proficiency will take place. You will learn to design learning sequences with a view to responding to both the demands of the curriculum (in other curriculum areas as well as in subject English) and the demands of assessment in the upper primary years. A focus on the teaching of writing at a more sophisticated level in the genres of persuasive text, informative texts and imaginative texts will be covered. Assessment as learning will also be applied to the teaching of literacy in text-based and digitally based resources. You will also understand how explicit reading, and writing comprehension instruction tailored to discipline-specific content improves students' academic understanding and engagement with material, as well as their overall academic performance.