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Here are a few important things to ensure you include in your presentation:

✏️ It is up to you whether you would like to use your face for the video presentation, or just
have a voice recording alongside some PowerPoint slides.

✏️ There is no spoken word limit. (600 - 800  words is approximately how many spoken words can fit into the time limit)

✏️ Make sure you include an introduction and conclusion in the time limit. These need to be quite brief given the time limit.

✏️ Ensure you presentation is within the allowable time limit. Anything past the time limit cannot be included. This may mean your conclusion might be missed, which will impact criterion 1.

✏️ Ensure you orally cite your references within your presentation. This shows us your research.

✏️Use the full name for the oral citation the first time (Australian Curriculum Assessment...) , then you can use the acronym.

✏️ You only need to include the Content Description or Outcome code, you do not need to supply the full description of CD. (Some of these are really long and the time is tight.)

✏️ Ensure you upload your Reference List separately as a Word document. Use a range of scholarly resources. Ensure you are using the APA format. Remember, there is a minimum of 5 references required.

✏️State the age group that is your focus.

✏️When linking your learning experience with the curriculum - use the AC's Content Descriptors for students in Year 1. Use the EYLF's Outcome 5 (include the sub-outcome)  for 3 year old students.

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Here is a padlet which gives you all the information about the different curriculum in each state.

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Here is a padlet which gives you all the information about the different curriculum in each state.

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https://padlet.com/carolyngray/74eg3psc2u5l

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I need to plan out my time so that I can submit this assignment on time

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I need to plan out my time so that I can submit this assignment on time

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Develop a study plan with the Student Coaches

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Chat to the Student Advisors

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Email a copy to your eLA and then Chat to the Student Advisors

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https://studenthub.swinburneonline.edu.au/login

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Where do I find the Curriculum to link to?

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Where do I find the Curriculum to link to?

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https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/learning-areas/

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Assignment 3

Information session - Tuesday 5th April @ 8pm (AEST)

Specialised session -Tuesday 12th April @ 8pm (AEST)

Q & A session - Wednesday 20th April @ 8pm (AEST)

The link to all the sessions is below:https://swinburneonline.instructure.com/courses/3438/external_tools/2

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EDU10002 A3 Presentation Information Session v2-1

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All collaborate recordings can be accessed via the link below and then navigating to the recordings link:

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Language development is a vital part of communication in the early years.

Children start learning language very early on in their development. Those funny cooing noises parents make to their babies are the first steps along the road of language development.

During the early years, children must develop both their receptive and expressive language.

Here are some great language activities for preschoolers.

How to Develop Language Through Activities

Language is something children acquire as they grow and learn. The best way to develop language is through interaction.

The way to interact with your children is to spend time with them and the best learning opportunities are found during play.
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15 Interactive Language Development Activities for Preschoolers

Here are some simple and fun language activities.

1. Storytelling

Books and telling stories are one of the best ways to encourage language.

Read age-appropriate stories or just tell the story through the pictures. Start early book experiences with board books and use sensory books to encourage your children to touch and feel items in the pictures.

My absolute favourites - and most educational - are all the books by Julia Donaldson and .

There is no end to the avenues you can explore, and the language you can develop, through books.

2. Baking

The kitchen offers many language opportunities. Here is a chance to encourage language development while you make something delicious to eat.

Counting, weighing and measuring are all part of a baking experience.

Baking cookies with soft dough to roll and cut out is probably one of the best baking activities for preschoolers. After you have baked your cookies you can get creative and decorate them with icing and sprinkles.

Finish off your 'baker baker' session with a tea party and share your cookies with the rest of the family.

3. Construction Toys

Choose construction toys that are age-appropriate. Lego is one of the best toys ( here's a great set), but perhaps your young preschooler is more comfortable with blocks.

Block play is a vital part of learning. Choose a good quality set of wooden blocks.

Construction toys give you an opportunity to talk about size and shape. Use construction toys to follow instructions and build towers or castles. Then play with what you have built.

4. Musical Games

Children love moving to music and playing musical games.

Here are some ideas:

Play songs to dance to, and clap hands to the rhythm.

Play musical statues and sing along to the music.

Bring out percussion instruments if you have them.

Make your own shakers with beans in a container.

Learn about sound - loud and soft, fast or slow and happy or sad songs.

Sing well-known songs to develop language.

5. Dressing Up Box

A collection of dressing-up clothes will encourage fantasy play and role play. Children can pretend to be someone else and use new vocabulary in their imaginative role.

Find old hats and shawls at charity shops or visit party shops for wigs and funny masks. Join in the fun yourself and get dressed up.

6. Picture Books

Picture books and non-fiction books provide great opportunities for developing language.

Many picture books relate to specific themes. Looking at a page about the farm, for example, teaches a variety of vocabulary related to farms.

Find out what your kids are interested in. Look out for different themes and encourage pointing to and saying the names of the pictures.

Some picture books are puzzle books with hidden items in the pictures or spot-the-difference pictures. These picture books encourage observation skills as well as language stimulation.

7. Gardening

Getting out into the garden and appreciating nature is a great way to develop vocabulary. Learning about plants and nurturing plants are valuable life skills.

If you don't have access to a garden, then try growing something in a pot or growing some herbs in the kitchen. A visit to a park or nature reserve will encourage learning outdoor vocabulary.

8. Puppet Shows

Playing with puppets and making up puppet shows is wonderful for language development.

Children feel free to talk through their puppet friends. Holding a puppet in each hand is an opportunity for a conversation between the two puppets.

Children love making up puppet shows. They can tell a favourite fairy tale using puppets and entertain the whole family.

Make your own puppets or use a set of hand puppets .

9. Touchy-Feely Bags

This is a very good way to encourage children to describe objects.

You need a cloth bag to put small objects into so they are not visible. Choose things around the house like a small ball, a teaspoon, a pencil and so on.

The items are put into the bag and your child puts their hand into the bag to feel one of the items. Then the item is described to you. You have to guess what it is.

10. Sand Play and Sensory Trays

Sensory vocabulary is developed through sand play and sensory trays. A sensory tray filled with different objects encourages language as your children touch and talk about items in the tray.

Choose things with different textures and sizes. Mix them up for sorting experiences. Look for things like buttons, corks, pebbles, pasta, blocks and Lego.

A sandpit under a shady tree is always a talking point and an opportunity for digging, building and playing with sand toys.

11. Fun with Paper Plates

Paper plates are so versatile and there are many activities you can do and crafts you can make with them. Have a pile in store for rainy days.

Keep a box of creative waste materials like stickers, glue, wool, felt pieces, old magazines, coloured licky sticky paper and markers and stamps. Let your kids experiment with making masks and other creative crafts.

12. Fantasy Play at Home

Creating fantasy scenarios at home really encourages language and helps children have different social experiences in the comfort of their homes.

Here are some ideas for fantasy play:

Set up a shop corner and play 'shop shop'.

Have a tea party and invite a friend to dress up.

Play having a wedding or party or just play 'house'.

Join in to make it a language experience.

13. Nursery Rhymes and Fingerplays

Saying rhymes and learning fingerplays helps to develop language through repetition and memorizing the words of the rhyme. Repetition is so important in learning a language.

If you are not familiar with the age-old favourites buy a CD or listen to songs on YouTube.

Driving in the car is a perfect time to play nursery rhymes (and word games). Singing silly songs together will increase your child's vocabulary in an entertaining way.

14. Painting

Children love to paint and it is a great opportunity to learn about colours. It can be messy, but learning to clean up adds another dimension to vocabulary development, especially if you use fun clean-up songs.

There are many different activities using paint. Try finger painting or printing with paint. There are more examples in this article about art activities.

Painting a picture is a great way to help children express their feelings by discussing the picture.

15. Card Games

There are numerous card games available that encourage vocabulary development. Matching pairs (there's a downloadable set at the end of the post), snap, and happy families, are just a few.

Playing card games develops social interaction and vocabulary associated with the game. Before you begin the game check your children have the vocabulary to be able to use the cards.

Tips to Encourage Language Development

The key to language development is interaction and along with interaction comes encouragement. Here are a few tips to help encourage children as they develop language.

Pay attention to your children when they are talking to you.

Praise good speech and vocabulary.

Help with new words by repeating them.

Add onto phrases or words and boost vocabulary (For example - Your child says "my ball" and you say "yes, your ball is a big ball").

Never make fun of mistakes - correct gently by repeating the sentence correctly.

Use TV and screens sparingly.

Check your children for ear infections.

Talk about what you are doing as you go about your daily chores.

Be a good role model.

The rate children learn new words is amazing. They are like little sponges soaking up every word they hear.

What a joy to be part of their language learning experience!

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In practice examples for speaking and listening

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PLEASE NOTE you must use Canvas Studio for this assignment.  Any other format will not be accepted.

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PLEASE NOTE you must use Canvas Studio for this assignment.  Any other format will not be accepted.

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You will be using Canvas Studio for your video presentation. Canvas Studio allows for video recording and screen recording. You can choose to create your presentation through Canvas Studio, or create it using an alternative program and then upload it to Canvas Studio. It is up to you whether you would like to include your face in the video presentation, or just have a voice recording alongside the PowerPoint slides.

The following resources will assist you with completing this assignment:

Canvas Studio tab on 0.2 How to succeed in this unit.

Canvas Studio (Student Hub Technical guide)

Narrated PowerPoint.

Video editing and recording.

Referencing.

If you have any concerns about the technical aspects of this task, please communicate them to your eLA as early as possible, so there will be time available to sort them out. The Student Advisors can assist with technical problems.

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Your video presentation will be submitted through the Assignment 1: Video submission point. This submission point will provide you instructions on how to record your video assignment, prepare your video for submission and how to submit your assignment video. Your Word document containing your reference list will be submitted through this assignment page. See Submission details overview for further instructions.

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The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) is a guide for educators in early childhood settings.  The Australian Curriculum is a document used by primary school teachers and lists the curriculum outcomes for each year level.  These are both important documents to begin to familiarise yourself with.  Further information about how to reference curriculum documents can be found in the Student Hub.

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Although these resources use soundcloud and are for a different activity, how to cite orally will be the same for your presentation.

https://soundcloud.com/helen-dunjey/recording-assessment-1b

https://soundcloud.com/helen-dunjey/recoding-assessment-1c

There is no need to orally cite the AC content descriptors reference in full due to the time limit.  For example  ACELA14443 is satisfactory.

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You will need to present your assignment in front of your camera or verbal present to powerpoint slides. Please ensure you present in a professional manner.

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Whether you are presenting online or in person, effective presentation skills are something you will need throughout your study and career. These videos will help you develop, and prepare for, a great presentation.

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Presentation Skills: Prepare For Your Presentation

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Presentation Skills: The Presentation Process

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Presentation Skills: Presenting From Home

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You could set it out as follows if you wish:

1. Brief introduction

2. Identify a specific link to a sub-outcome under Outcome 5 from the EYLF or a content description from the Australian curriculum: English (or a state equivalent) that you think will promote children’s speaking and listening skills.

3. Identify a specific age group within the early years that you would like to focus on for this assignment. For example, 3 year olds in a pre-kindergarten room or 6-7 year olds in Year 1. It must be within either an early childhood setting (birth to 5 years of age), or an early years primary school setting (5 to 8 years of age)

4 .Describe a learning experience or an activity that educators can use to support your chosen age group’s speaking and listening skills.

5. Identify or use a prop in your presentation to provide further context e.g. a book, a puppet, visual aids etc.

6. Explain how the learning experience or activity can support children’s speaking and listening skills for your chosen age group.

7. Explain how your learning experience or activity will promote the learning of your chosen age group and support them in achieving the sub-outcome.

8. Present a rationale to explain why it is important for educators to include the teaching of speaking and listening skills in their literacy program. In your rationale, you must make a specific reference to a relevant theory to help support your statements.

9 Conclusion- short to sum up key point.

Please note this is just a suggestion.

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Hi All,

Here are a few important things to ensure you include in your presentation:

✏️ It is up to you whether you would like to use your face for the video presentation, or just
have a voice recording alongside some PowerPoint slides.

✏️ There is no spoken word limit. (400-500 words is approximately how many spoken words can fit into the time limit)

✏️ Make sure you include an introduction and conclusion in the time limit. These need to be quite brief given the time limit.

✏️ Ensure you presentation is within the allowable time limit. Anything past the time limit cannot be included. This may mean your conclusion might be missed, which will impact criterion 1.

✏️ Ensure you orally cite your references within your presentation. This shows us your research.

✏️Use the full name for the oral citation the first time (Australian Curriculum Assessment...) , then you can use the acronym.

✏️ You only need to include the Content Description or Outcome code, you do not need to supply the full description of CD. (Some of these are really long and the time is tight.)

✏️ Ensure you upload your Reference List separately as a Word document. Use a range of scholarly resources. Ensure you are using the APA format. Remember, there is a minimum of 5 references required.

✏️When linking your learning experience with the curriculum - use the AC's Content Descriptors for students from Foundation - Year 2 (5-8yrs). Use the EYLF's Outcomes for (children 0-5yrs).

1. Define and describe the English Learning Area - remember to use references!

Provide an example (a very brief description/overview of an activity) for English as a Curriculum Learning Area

Link this activity to the AC or EYLF using appropriate Content Descriptor or Outcome

2. Define and describe the English Literacy strand - support your discussions with references!

Provide an example (a very brief description/overview of an activity) for Literacy

Link this activity to the AC or EYLF using appropriate Content Descriptor or Outcome

3. Discuss the similarities and differences of the English Learning Area and Literacy.

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APA 7th Edition: The Basics of APA In-text Citations | Scribbr 🎓

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In-Text Referencing of AC Content Descriptors

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In-Text Referencing of AC Content Descriptors

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EXAMPLE

This is reflected in the Science: Biological Sciences, foundation year level of the Australian Curriculum (AC), where students investigate how ‘living things have basic needs, including food and water’ (ACARA, 2018, ACSSU002, v.8.4).

Here's the link for information on how to correctly cite AC Content Descriptors.

https://studenthub.swinburneonline.edu.au/referencing (Links to an external site.)

Click on Referencing the Australian Curriculum and scroll down to In-Text Citation.

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Here is a great video to help you with uploading your assignment.

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Time management and assignment extensions

We understand that everyone is busy juggling family, work and social life with your study.  Here are a few tips and resources to help you succeed in your study this TP.

Spend time checking that you have time to complete the number of units you are planning each TP. Each undergraduate unit recommends 10-12.5 hours per week, and placements require more than this.  Studying 4 units at once is the equivalent of a full time job!

Check all of your assignment dates at the beginning of the TP. Often assignments are due on the same day. There are some great tips on time management on the student portal.  The study planners (Links to an external site.) , especially the interactive one, are great ways to get organised. You will also find information on positive study habits (Links to an external site.) including workshops, time management and motivation tips.

Reassess your study load once you have checked assignments and filled in your study planner.  Sometimes it is better to do one less unit per TP, rather than putting yourself under extra stress and the possibility of not completing the unit.

Start working on your assignments early – at least 2 weeks before the due date and aim to be up to the polishing stage by the weekend before the due date.  Make sure you plan in a buffer for those unexpected events that tend to crop up the weekend before the due dates.

48 hour extensions are available through the assignment information tab.

Any extension that is longer that 48 hours requires supporting evidence.