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

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

Dates:

The workshops will be held in Terms 1 & 2, 2013 from 9.00-3.30 on:

Venue:
Catholic Education Conference Centre
116 George Street, Thebarton

Please note that visitor car parking is not available at the George Street site. For directions and parking, please refer to Catholic Education Conference Centre  

Registration: 
Closes Wednesday, 20 March 2013

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.