The third language and literacy unit extends pre-service teachers’ knowledge of the skills, concepts and understandings significant to the needs of fluent and advanced literacy learners.  Theoretical knowledge and teaching and learning models that are relevant to developing the competencies of fluent literacy learners in the areas of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and critical literacy are presented.  Pre-service teachers will learn about and critically examine a variety of teaching practices and organisational approaches and explore methods of adapting these in order to cater for individual needs.

The unit also introduces planning for literacy learning within a framework that considers the relationship between assessment, planning, teaching and evaluation. Pre-service teachers will investigate different approaches to the assessment of children's literacy knowledge and will learn to create forward plans for the teaching of literacy where consideration is given to relevant curriculum documents and policies, different literacy learning contexts and individual needs within groups of children.