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ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS
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Intersession and Summer Session, 1977
EDUC.
472-04
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Prof. Meguido Zola
BLOCK V
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Monday & Wednesday
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Faculty Associate
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4.30-8.30 p.m.
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Team
This course is offered to students and practicing
teachers who wish to explore that language communication-
based approach to learning called the Language Arts.
The course is designed to introduce you to planning
for learning, creating learning environments, and developing
strategies, techniques, and materials in the Language Arts
in the elementary school.
The course will comprise a broad range of experiences
organized in such a way as to maximize individualization of
learn i ng.
1st Movement: ?
(4.30
p.m. -
5.45 p.m.)
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This part of each
session will provide you with experiences in communication
through the use of some of the many forms of self-expression
which encourage children to pursue language learnings leading
to and reinforcing listening, speaking, reading and writing:
Music, Song, and Movement
Creative Dance
Developmental Drama
Communication Media
Each of these expressive media will be explored for a period
of five consecutive sessions, so that you will be able to
participate in two of the four media.
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You will suplement this
work by completion of selected readings and by completion of an
assignment in curriculum design relating to at least one of the
media.
This part of each session will conclude with a brief
interval during which you will participate in a variety of
experiences built around the reading of selected children's
literature. ?
You will supplement this work by completion of
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a number of readings of your own choice in the field of children's
literature as it relates to your individual teaching level and/
or interests.
2nd Movement: ?
(5.45 p.m. -
7.45 p.m.)
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Through open-access
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learning centres, workshop presentations, and field experiences,
this part of each session will provide you with experiences in
learning about the teaching of Language Arts with a specific
focus on:
language growth & development in children;
the Language Arts defined & some overviews of' Language
Arts programs examined;
curriculum development with specific reference to
the Language Arts -- diagnosis of needs, setting
of objectives, planning & sequence, implementation,
evaluation, integration of the Language Arts program;
* aural-oral aspects of the Language Arts -- some
dimensions of interaction; fostering & developing
listening and speaking;
reading -- the reading act;
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instructional approaches,
materials, and programs;
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children's literature;
*writing__ fostering & developing written expression;
tools & techniques; convention in writing (including
spelling,. punctuation, -etc.);
* thinking: the fifth Language Art;
* grammar & usage;
You will supplement this work by completion of directed
readings prior to and following upon each
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session, and by completion
of.a number of assignments designed to demonstrate achievement
of certain selected competencies.
Recommended readings of- a general kind include:
Moffett, James.
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A Student-Centered Language Arts Curriculum
Grades K-13 or Grades K-6' Edition.
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Houghton
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Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973.
Van Allen, Roach.
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Language. Experiences in Communication, Houghton
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Mif,flin Company, Boston, 1976.
Veatch, Jeannette..
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Reading in the Elementary School, Ronald Press,
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N.Y., 1966.
3rd Movement
(7.45 P.m. -
8.15 p.m.) ?
Through small group discussion
this part of each sesss ion will enable you to reflect upon your
learnings and to clarify your beliefs and ideas about the field.
Requirements:
Attendance and participation in all parts of the course;
Completion of readings; of a journa1-cum-resource-boo; of
assignments; ?
Demonstration of achievement of certain selected
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competencies.
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