Year
2018
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
School of Education
Abstract
This study is an investigation of middle years teachers’ understandings of comprehension and their practices in the curriculum domains (Freebody et al., 2013) of English and Science in Years 5 to 8. Teacher knowledge and understanding of disciplinary literacy and comprehension in the context of curriculum content are areas of new understanding that have emerged as academic literacy demands increase for students entering the middle years of schooling. “The challenge of teaching reading comprehension is heightened in the current educational era because all students are expected to read more text and more complex texts” (Snow, 2002 p.15) across multiple curriculum domains, and demonstrate their understanding of text and content in discipline-specific ways. To achieve this, multi-faceted comprehension instruction is required, embedded within the content, to bring about deeper understandings of disciplinary knowledge.
Recommended Citation
Byers, Susan, An LCT Examination of Comprehension and Pedagogy in Middle Years English and Science, Doctor of Education thesis, School of Education, University of Wollongong, 2018. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/528
FoR codes (2008)
1302 CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.