DESCRIPTION TASK:This assessment task will enhance your learning of language and literacy development in early childhood. It will encourage you to critically reflect on your current or future teaching...

This assessment task will enhance your learning of language and literacy development in early childhood. It will encourage you to critically reflect on your current or future teaching practices to identify your areas of strength or areas for improvement.

1. You are required to select two of the following topics from Modules 1-3.

Oral language
Multilingualism and multiculturalism

Early literacy/emergent literacy

Print concepts
Phonological awareness
Emergent writing

2. You will then complete the following activities for each of your selected topics. You will write 900words on each topic (1800 words in total). Suggested wordcounts are provided below as well as on the Assessment 1
–
Part B template.

Explain how this topic relates to the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 or the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework. You should include one example (from either framework) of how this area may be observed in children and one example of how this area be promoted by educators. You will need to reference the relevant framework (
~150 words
).

Select one journal article from the list for your topic. You will summarise and evaluate the quality of the journal article using the question prompts provided in the template (
~225 words
).

Select one website from the list for your topic. You will summarise and evaluate the quality of the website using the question prompts provided in the template (
~225 words
).

Critically reflect on your key learnings from the module, journal article and webpage and how the learning impacts (or will impact) your practice as an early childhood educator (
~300 words
).