Short Course Literacy

Short Course

Literacy Short Course helps students understand themselves, and understand and evaluate the world they live in.

This subject is suited to students who are interested in pathways beyond school that lead to vocational education and/or work. A course of study in Literacy may establish a basis for further education and employment in the fields of trade, industry, business and community services. Students will learn within a practical context related to general employment and successful participation in society, drawing on the literacy used by various professional and industry groups.

Prerequisites

None

*Short Courses in Numeracy and Literacy are only available to students who cannot meet the minimum numeracy and literacy requirements through Essential English and Mathematics. These short courses accrue 1 QCE point each on completion. Participation in these short courses requires approval from the Deputy Principal of Senior Secondary in consultation with the Head of English and Head of Maths to determine a student’s eligibility for the course.

Pathways

A course of study in Literacy may establish a basis for further education and employment in the fields of:

trade
industry
business
community services

Students will learn within a practical context related to general employment and successful participation in society, drawing on the literacy used by various professional and industry groups.

Course Information

Course Overview

Literacy is a one-unit course of study, developed to meet a specific curriculum need. It is informed by the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) Level 3.

Literacy is integral to a person’s ability to function effectively in society. It involves the integration of speaking, listening and critical thinking with reading and writing.

Students learn strategies to develop and monitor their own learning, select and apply reading and oral strategies to comprehend and make meaning in texts, demonstrate the relationships between ideas and information in texts, evaluate and communicate ideas and information, and learn and use textual features and conventions.

Students identify and develop a set of knowledge, skills and strategies needed to shape language according to purpose, audience and context. They select and apply strategies to comprehend and make meaning in a range of texts and text types, and communicate ideas and information in a variety of modes. Students understand and use textual features and conventions, and demonstrate the relationship between ideas and information in written, oral, visual and multimodal texts.

Structure and Assessment

Schools develop two assessment instruments to determine the student’s exit result.

Topic 1: Personal identity	Topic 2: Workplace Contexts
Assessment: Written response	Assessment: Spoken or multimodal response

Topic 1: Personal identity

Topic 2: Workplace Contexts

Assessment:

Written response

Assessment:

Spoken or multimodal response

Intensives

Teacher

Julian Fanning

Head of Senior Engagement (10-12), Coordinator of Senior Studies (10-12)

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