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DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS

(ELEMENTARY)

Regular Semester, 1987

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Instructor: Jean Warburton

May 4- July 3l ?

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291-3787

Wednesday, 8:30-12:20

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Location: MPX 9511/12

This course is designed for beginning teachers who wish to examine fundamental

principles underlying the Language Arts curriculum and explore means of selecting

and developing materials, strategies and techniques to create a rich learning

environment for their students. The course will contain theoretical and practical

components, and students will be expected to:

- demonstrate an understanding of child development and of curriculum goals

in designing appropriate learning activities;

- examine various methods for developing the communication skills of

reading, writing, listening and speaking;

- critically examine resources for motivating and/or teaching language skills;

- examine the role of the teacher in Language Arts Education

TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:

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child development and the acquisition of language;

- the Language Arts curriculum -- planning for and evaluating student learning;

- reading instruction, comprehension, vocabulary development;

- the writing process -- personal, literary and public writing; spelling and language

conventions;

- aural/oral language -- drama, use of audio-visual resources

- children's literature, story telling;

- resources and materials -- texts,

films,

records;

- the computer in the language arts classroom.

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attendance, participation and assigned readings:

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15%

- completion of projects: ?

35%

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short written assignments: ?

50%

Temple, Charles, & Wallace Gillet, Jean. Language Arts: Learning Processes and

Teaching Practices.