Bayburt University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
S303B	First Reading and Writing Instruction	Compulsory	3	5	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To teach how to teach and how to teach reading and writing to primary school students and non-literate students through sound based sentence method

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1	make instructional plan of the course “1st Grade Literacy Education”.
2	implement teaching and learning methods of the course “1st Grade Literacy Education”.
3	implement assessment and evaluation methods of the course “1st Grade Literacy Education”.
4	teach how to read and write to 1st grade students at primary education.
5	implement teaching and learning activities to 1st graders who know how to read and write in order to improve their reading and writing skills
6	First reading and writing activities in preparation plans.
7	Sound groups, syllables, words, and how to construct sentences and shows them how to teach students.
8	First Reading and Writing Instruction in the course of preparing applications related to measurement and evaluation.

Mode of Delivery

Normal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Listening, speaking, visual reading and visual presentation; The relationship between the definition and process of reading and writing learning areas and learning areas, the characteristics of Turkic, the effect of these features on teaching primary and writing; The aims and principles of primary education and writing, basic characteristics of primary education teachers and students; Reasons of inefficiency-failure in primary school and writing instruction, tools used in primary school and writing teaching (features and effects, selection, creation and use of these tools); Methods applied in primary school and writing teaching (definition, characteristics, classification, applications, advantages and limitations of methods); Voice-based sentence method (definition, principles, features, steps and application), practice of reading and writing instruction in line with the steps of voice-based sentence method.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Provide students with the opportunity to meet the students, to distribute the teaching program and to inform the students in general about the definition, objectives, achievements, contents, methods, resources and evaluation aspects of the course.
2	Evaluation of primary education programs
3	Primary reading and writing teaching in primary school curriculum
4	Introduction to housekeeping (Principles of cooking), The main aims of reading and writing
5	Reading approaches
6	Factors related to reading readiness
7	Concept areas in reading and writing (reading strategies - writing process and written products)
8	The role of family in reading and language development
9	Writing (why the adjacent slanted text, adjacent slanted text teaching), the elements affecting writing
10	Midterm exam
11	Reading writing methods, preparation for first reading and writing, first reading and writing start
12	Practices of writing education
13	Language learning, ways of improving vocabulary
14	Measurement and evaluation
15	Measurement and evaluation
16	Final Examination

Recommended or Required Reading

Ders Kitabı: Türkçe İlk Okuma Yazma Öğretimi, Hayati AKYOL, Pegem A Yayıncılık, Ankara: 2011 Yardımcı Kitaplar: İlkokuma ve Yazma Öğretimi, Cavit Binbaşıoğlu, Nobel Yay. Ankara: 2004

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	2	2
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	13	3	39
Self Study	12	1	12
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	22	22
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	32	32
Reading	13	1	13
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO
1

PO
2

PO
3

PO
4

PO
5

PO
6

PO
7

PO
8

PO
9

PO
10

PO
11

PO
12

PO
13

PO
14

LO1

LO2

LO3

LO4

LO5

LO6

LO7

LO8

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High