This topic introduces techniques and tools that enable integrated planning for the teaching and learning of the conventions and modes of multiple languages. This topic includes the study of established, successful, evidence-based practices for English literacy teaching. It involves a task-analytic approach to the planning of teaching and learning activities including monitoring and assessment of student learning in and across languages. Key tasks for analysis will be: vocabulary development; phonemic awareness; sound-symbol correspondence; decoding; comprehension and fluency. This process will be undertaken through a cross-linguistic framework that introduces the methodologies of translanguaging and contrastive analysis. Participants will be guided in the application of these tasks and methodologies. This establishes a basis for leading site-based professional learning on multilingual literacy.
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