“…In response, the Australian Curriculum emphasises the importance of literacy being integrated across the curriculum (Australian Centre for Educational Research [ACER], 2017; Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2010a[ACARA], , b, c, 2011Gonski et al, 2018). It is recognised that not only English teachers need to be effective teachers of literacy; all teachers need to understand how literacy can be embedded across learning areas (ACARA, 2010a(ACARA, , b, 2011(ACARA, , 2017Faulkner, 2012;Faulkner et al, 2012a, b;Kirsten, 2019;Scott et al, 2018). If preservice teachers are to graduate with the knowledge and practice for literacy teaching, they require rigorous university coursework and effective mentoring in literacy teaching during their inschool professional experience.…”