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EDUCATION 472-4: DESIGNS FOR LEARNING:
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ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS
Fall Semester, 1988
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Instructor: ?
Melanie Zola
Evenings, Wednesday, 4:30-8:20
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Phone: ?
291-3395 (SFU messages)
Room: MPX 7600
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed for teachers who wish to explore a language communication-based approach
to learning, called the Language Arts. Speaking, listening, reading and writing - the essentials of
Language Arts - are acts of mind by which we make meaning. As writers and readers, we have
mutual goals, that of constructing meaning; promoting understanding; making sense of the world.
This will provide a framework from which you will examine and reflect upon: your beliefs
regarding learning and teaching the Language Arts; your role as teacher in engaging children in
their search for meaning; the means by which to enhance language learning in your classroom.
The course is designed so as to enable you to reflect on your classroom experience and plan ways
in which you may test and try new ideas in the future; and, to assist you to develop a new
repertoire of methods and materials that will enhance language learning in the classroom.
The course will comprise a broad range of experiences. Firstly, and most importantly, it will focus
on professional reading, supplemented by reflection and discussion. This will be rounded out by
seminars; lectures; workshops and demonstrations; individualized tasks; small-group work.
OUTLINE OF
TOPICS:
Some of the topics which will be explored include:
* the Language Arts defined; establishing priorities in language arts curriculum; some
overviews of language arts programs (with special reference to what is termed 'whole
language');
* language learning and literacy;
* aural-oral aspect of the Language Arts - some dimensions of interaction; fostering and
developing listening and speaking;
* children's literature in the Language Arts classroom.
* the reading and writing processes - how to help children make the links;
* reading and writing across the curriculum;
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
* Attendance and participation in all parts of the course
* Completion of assigned professional readings
* Completion of brief oral and/or written assignments
* Completion of professional Log book-cum-Resource book
* Final examination
REQUIRED TEXTS:
*Judith Newman. 1983. Whole Language: Theor
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In Use. Heinemann.
*Jim Trelease. 1985. The Read Aloud Handbook. Penguin.
*Liz Waterland. 1985. Read With Me: An Apprenticeship Approach to Reading. Thimble Press.
*David Booth, Larry Swartz & Meguido Zola. 1987. Choosing Children's Books. Pembroke.
*Donald Graves & Virginia Stuart. 1986. Write from The Start: Tapping Your Child's Natural
Writing Ability,
New American Library.
*Marie M. Clay. 1975. What Did I Write? Heinemann. OR Writing Begins at Home.
*Lucy McCormick Calkins. 1986. The Art of Teaching Writing. Heinemann.