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=ESH486 Children's Literature Studies=


 * Assessment task 2: Collaboratively prepared professional article**

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Happy planning, Robyn

Email: Robyn.McCarthy@utas.edu.au Phone: (03) 6324 3219

You are to choose four texts and respond to them in a 'reading' journal (see below for more details): The journal should reveal your impressions, queries and understandings of the texts you have chosen as well as of the unit readings (available on e-reserve). You should record your responses to the texts and readings as you read them; indeed I would suggest that you should force yourself to stop reading at important points throughout each book (particularly if the book is exciting or puzzling) and ask yourself how the author has managed to achieve such a response from you. Then write your thoughts. You might not stop reading until the end of the book (especially if it is a picture book) but it is important that you then record your thoughts. In your journal you might want to respond to questions such as:
 * Task description**
 * one suitable for an early childhood setting (K - 2)
 * one suitable for a primary setting (Gr. 3 - 6)
 * one suitable for an early adolescent audience (Gr. 6- 8)
 * one of your choice.


 * What passage/idea/thought made the biggest impression on you when you first read it? Why?
 * What have you learnt about children's literature from this text?
 * How did the language and text features in this book add to (or detract from) your reading? (It is important to identify the language and text features in each text).
 * How will that learning impact on your classroom practice?

Once you have completed your reading journal as described above, use this journal as the **basis** for your critique. So, you do not need to submit your journal with your assignment but rather, use it to **inform the preparation** of the assignment.
 * Task preparation and presentation**

When preparing your assignment you must ensure that you **critique each of the four texts**. As this assignment is **not an essay**, there is some flexibility in the way you present your critique. It can be set out using sub-headings (for example, 'Text 1: //Title of book//', 'Text 2: //Title of book//, etc); or you could craft your submission based on emergent themes in your journal. For example, you might choose to arrange the critique thematically using subheadings such as 'Illuatrations', 'Language Use' and so on; including reference to **each of the four selected texts**.


 * Task length:** 1500 words


 * Assessment Criteria:**
 * 1) Appropriate academic writing (includes correct APA referening - where appropriate)
 * 2) Demonstrated ability to articulate response to and critique of children's literature and other resource material
 * 3) Capacity to identify language and other text features of selected children's literature texts

I think you have put up assessment task one instead of assessment task two. Regards, Kristi