Literacies and Education
Code
73221110
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas
Credits
10
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Aims:
To deepen knowledge concerning children’s early conceptions about written language and the theories
and models of learning to read and write and to promote critical thinking concerning the intervention
strategies on this area.
Skills:
To be able to evaluate children’s early conceptions concerning written language and conceive
pedagogical activities that promote the development of these conceptions
To be able to evaluate children’s reading and writing skills and reading and writing problems
To be able to conceive pedagogical activities that promote the development of reading and writing
acquisition
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
Entering an alphabetic writing system
Early conceptions concerning the written language
Learning to read
Problems in reading acquisition
Learning to write
Problems in writing acquisition
Guidelines to intervention programmes that promote reading and writing acquisition
Bibliography
Alves Martins, M. & Niza, I. (1998) Psicologia da aprendizagem da linguagem escrita. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Ferreiro, E., & Teberosky, A. (1986). Psicogénese da língua escrita. Porto Alegre: Artes Médicas.
McBride-Chang, C. (2004). Children’s literacy development. New York: Oxford University Press.
Nunes, T., & Bryant, P. (Ed.) (2004). Handbook of children’s literacy. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Snowling, M., & Hulme, D. (2005). The science of reading. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical classes with exposition of course contents, accompanied by papers discussion and case discussions .
Evaluation method
Individual oral presentation and individual written essay.
Participation in classroom discussions.