The Australian Curriculum: English states that "students bring with them to school a wide range of experiences with language and texts" and that these experiences are "rich resources for further learning about language, literature and literacy". 

This 3 day series of workshops will explore the following elements of emergent literacy:

• The importance of oral language in learning to read and write
• Developing metalinguistic awareness (the child's ability to think about and manipulate language) through classroom routines 
• Understanding the functions of print
• Learning to crack the alphabetic code and how to teach this in integrated and language-rich contexts
• Using the Australian Curriculum: English to design rich learning tasks.

An outline of the course can be accessed at:
Course Outline

The workshops will be held in Term 3 from 9.00-3.30 on:

Venue:

1. Education Development Centre
   Milner Street, Hindmarsh
   For directions and parking, please refer to
   Education Development Centre
2. Catholic Education Conference Centre
   116 George Street, Thebarton
   For directions and parking, please refer to
   Catholic Education Conference Centre  

Please direct all course enquiries to Fiona Callaghan at fiona.callaghan@cesa.catholic.edu.au or telephone 83016601.

Registration: 
Closes Wednesday, 8 August.

For registration enquiries please contact

Elaine Mulhall
Catholic Education Office
Ph  8301 6694
elaine.mulhall@cesa.catholic.edu.au

Morning tea and lunch will be provided.