Course Details

1. Recognize and explain the relation between reading and writing, and (historical) orthography and spelling
2. Apply the proper methods for teaching and writing especially in the first grades of Primary School in accordance with the basic elements of the Curriculum for the Study of Modern Greek Language (critical literacy, communicative approach).
3. Evaluate the adequacy of the educational material found in textbooks for teaching Modern Greek in Primary Education, and propose new one if needed.
4. Create educational material based on emergent literacy.
5. Solve problems connected to the taught concepts and present and justify the way according to which they work
6. Explore, identify and explain primary school children’s perceptions on the taught concepts and phenomena.
7. Develop and teach complete lesson plans for teaching reading and writing.
8. Use research outcomes and data to develop and implement educational interventions.

The fundamentals of teaching reading and writing in Primary Education: the aim, the content, the curriculum, the textbooks, the lesson plans.

The communicative approach of teaching (in comparison with the traditional one).

Literacy: emergent literacy, early literacy, school literacy, multiliteracies, autonomous and ideological models of literacy.

Writing systems, (Greek) orthography and spelling acquisition.

• Hadzilouka-Mavri I. et al. (2003). Reading and writing in the first grade of Elementary School, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Nicosia.
• Course notes.

• Spantidakis I. 2004. Problems in the production of writing of school age children: identification-evaluation-coping. Ellinika Grammata, Athens.
• Spantidakis I. 2010. Socio-cognitive multimedia learning environments for the production of writing: from theory to practice, Gutenberg, Athens.