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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 472-4 ?
DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: LANGUAGE ARTS
Regular Summer Semester, 1991
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Instructors: Judith Scott and others
(May 6 - August 2)
Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:50 p.m. & Tutorials
Location: MPX 7618
PREREQUISITE:
Educ. 4011402, or equivalent.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course offers a theoretical framework and practical information about
teaching a language arts program in primary and intermediate classrooms.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed with the current changes in the language arts curriculum
in B.C. in mind. A group of instructors will be team teaching the course in which
we will model some of the possibilities that exist in teaching an integrated program
of speaking, listening, reading, and writing in grades K-8. The course is
designed to enable students to reflect on language learning and to assist you in
developing a repertoire of methods and materials that will enhance language
learning in a classroom.
OUTLINE OF TOPICS
Overview of language and literacy
Connections between reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and representing
Creating a literate environment
The role of strategy instruction
The role of literature
Emergent literacy
Extending literacy
Vocabulary development
Language and learning across the curriculum
Assessment and evaluation of a language arts program
TYPICAL REQUIREMENTS
To bring in and discuss children's literature, to create an integrated language arts
unit, to use writing as a vehicle for understanding, to observe children using
language, peer teaching, and the reading, discussion and evaluation of assigned
and selected readings.
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REQUIRED TEXTS
1.
B.C. Ministry of Education. (1990).
Language Arts English: Primary -
Graduation Curriculum Binder.
2. Hansen, J., Newkirk, T., & Graves, D. (1985).
Breaking ground: Teachers
relate reading and writing in the elementary school.
Irwin Publishing.
3.
Anderson, R., Hiebert, E., Scott, J., & Wilkinson, I. (1985).
Becoming a
Nation of Readers. Center for the Study of Reading.
4. Adams, M.J. (1990).
Beginning to read: Thinking and learning about print.
A Summar y
. Center for the Study of Reading.
5.
Wells, Gordon. (1986).
The meaning makers.
Irwin Publishing.
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
A choice of extended reading material will be given. A complete bibliography will
be handed out at the first meeting.
