2.Develop a range of teaching practices and resources to engage children in learning appropriate to their strengths, interests and needs
3. Consider and compare instruments and practices designed to assess children’s communication skills, particularly oral language, reading, writing and grammar skills and review and critique appropriate literacy programs and resources
4. Construct methods and tools that support children with a wide range of skills in literacy
5.Consider and develop a range of strategies to enable ICT to expand literacy teaching.
Assessment details

This folio task incorporates two sections. Both sections require you to respond to the following scenario based on writing development:
Following prior learning about recounts, and class discussion of story structure, students were asked to write a story of their own. Ideas and vocabulary from their discussions were available on the classroom wall and students also read and commented on their partner’s work. The idea of the bonsai tree derived from paired discussion about unusual plants from around the world and how to make them do dramatic things.
•Harper’s narrative
•Madison’s narrative
Section 1

For both Harper and Madison you will need to:
1.develop and describe a teaching strategy you have covered in the material to support and extend the child’s writing development
2.propose an example of specific learning experiences aligned to the strategy that will support the child’s writing development. This should include: ?a description of the teaching methods required for the learning experience
?an explanation for how it will support the development of writing skills
?suggestions on how ICT can be incorporated into the lesson.
This section of the folio should be around 1000 words, evenly split between each child. Make sure your responses for both children are clearly delineated.

Section 2

Describe the instruments and practices you would use to assess the writing skills of both children. Explain the features and benefits of your identified instruments and how they meet the specific writing needs of both children.

This section of the folio should be around 500 words.
justify your responses to the scenarios by making links to published academic sources, appropriately cited in APA style.
2.Develop a range of teaching practices and resources to engage children in learning appropriate to their strengths, interests and needs
3. Consider and compare instruments and practices designed to assess children’s communication skills, particularly oral language, reading, writing and grammar skills and review and critique appropriate literacy programs and resources
4. Construct methods and tools that support children with a wide range of skills in literacy
5.Consider and develop a range of strategies to enable ICT to expand literacy teaching.
Assessment details

This folio task incorporates two sections. Both sections require you to respond to the following scenario based on writing development:
Following prior learning about recounts, and class discussion of story structure, students were asked to write a story of their own. Ideas and vocabulary from their discussions were available on the classroom wall and students also read and commented on their partner’s work. The idea of the bonsai tree derived from paired discussion about unusual plants from around the world and how to make them do dramatic things.
•Harper’s narrative
•Madison’s narrative
Section 1

For both Harper and Madison you will need to:
1.develop and describe a teaching strategy you have covered in the material to support and extend the child’s writing development
2.propose an example of specific learning experiences aligned to the strategy that will support the child’s writing development. This should include: ?a description of the teaching methods required for the learning experience
?an explanation for how it will support the development of writing skills
?suggestions on how ICT can be incorporated into the lesson.
This section of the folio should be around 1000 words, evenly split between each child. Make sure your responses for both children are clearly delineated.

Section 2

Describe the instruments and practices you would use to assess the writing skills of both children. Explain the features and benefits of your identified instruments and how they meet the specific writing needs of both children.

This section of the folio should be around 500 words.
justify your responses to the scenarios by making links to published academic sources, appropriately cited in APA style.