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    ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS
    IntersessIon
    1979
    Education
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    Instructors: Meguido Zola, Assistant Professor., S.F.U.
    Monday and Wednesday ?
    David Booth,.Chairman of Drama,
    4:30 - 8:30
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    . ? University of Toronto.
    Location:
    8620, 8627, 8631
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    Sheila Luetzen, Faculty Associate, S.F.U.
    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 learning.
    Expressive Activities:
    This part of the course will begin with an interval during which you will parti-
    cipate in a variety of experiences built around the reading of selected children's
    literature. You will supplement this work by completion of 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.
    The next part of the course 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 ]earnings leading to and reinforcing listening,
    speaking, reading and writing:
    Music, Song and Movement
    Developmental Drama
    Communication Media including Art
    Calligraphy, Photography, Film
    Puppetry, Book Making, Play, etc.
    Each of these expressive media will be explored for a period of consecutive
    sessions so that you will be able to partiipate i,n more than
    one medk"'. You
    will supplement this work by completion of selected readirgs and by co'nletlon
    of relevant assignments.
    Workshops:
    Through open-access learning centres, workshop presentations and fie I experiences,
    this part of each session will provide you with experiences in learn g about
    the teaching of Language Arts with a specific focus on:
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    language growth and development in children;
    * the Language Arts defined, and some overviews of Languaci
    Arts programs examined;
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    * curriculum development with specific reference to the Language Arts
    -- diagnosis of needs, setting of objectives, planning and sequence,
    implementation, evaluation, integration of the Language Arts program;
    aural-oral aspects of the Language Arts -- some dimensions of interaction;
    fostering and developing listening and speaking;
    reading - instructional approaches, materials, programs and children's
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    literature;
    writing - fostering and developing written expression, tools and
    techniques, co"vention in writing (including spelling, punctuation,
    etc.), grammar usage;
    * thinking - the fifth Language Art.
    You will supplement this
    work
    by completion of directed readings prior to and
    following upon each session, and by completion of a number of assignments
    designed to demonstrate achievement of certain selected competencies.
    Time and Task Seminars:
    In this last segment of
    thr
    course, you will have varying opportunity to complete
    some of your tasks through small-group work. Also, seminars
    will be heif through
    which you will be able
    to
    reflect upon your ]earnings and to clarify your beliefs
    and ideas about Language
    Arts.
    Required Text:
    James Moffett and Betty Jane Wagner, Student-Centered Language Arts and Readin
    K-13. Houghton--Mifflin,-2nd revised edition,
    1976.
    A variety of additional texts will be recommended.
    Requirements:
    Attendance and participation in all parts of the course; completion of readings
    and practice task assignments; demonstration of achievement of certain selected
    competencies.
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