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EDUCATION 385-4
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Special Topics: Whole Language
Regular Summer Semester, 1990
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Instructor:
(May 7 - August 3)
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Mondays
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Home Phone
5:30 - 9:20 P. M.
Location: MPX 7600
Sue Montabello
291-4432
420-2745
"Whole language in its essence goes beyond the simple
delineation of a series of teaching strategies to describe a shift in
the way in which teachers think about and practise their art."
(Sharon Rich)
PREREQUISITE:
Education 401/402 or the equivalent of a first year practicum.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed for teachers who wish to understand the foundations
of 'whole language' approaches to literacy.
Education 385
will provide an
opportunity for teachers to examine the theoretical foundations and the
practices that issue forth from the 'whole language' philosophy.
The course will investigate insights from recent research in language
learning and their implications for the 'whole language' classroom. This will
provide a context in which you will examine and reflect upon: your beliefs
regarding learning and teaching language; your role as teacher in engaging
children in their search for meaning; the means by which to enhance
language learning in the classroom.
Education 385
is designed so as to enable you to reflect on your own
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: lectures; workshops
and demonstrations; seminars; individualized tasks; small-group work.
OVER
OUTLINE OF TOPICS:
What is literacy? How do we grow into literacy?
Theoretical and research foundations of whole language instruction.
Principles of whole language instruction.
Creating an environment to enhance language learning.
Developing meaning through oral language -- with special reference to
informal talk, discussion, storytelling and drama.
Developing meaning through reading & writing -- with special reference to
the emergent reading/writing process, reading aloud, individualized
reading and literature-based reading instruction.
Evaluation and record-keeping in a whole language approach.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
*Attendance and participation in all aspects of the course
*Completion of assigned professional readings
*Completion of assigned children's novel readings
*Completion of brief oral and/or written assignments
*Completion of professional journal
REQUIRED TEXTS:
*Lucy McCormick Calkins. The Art of Teaching Writing. Heinemann
(paperback)
*Liz Waterland. Read with Me: An Apprenticeship Approach to Reading.
Thimble Press (paperback)
*Jim Trelease. The New Read Aloud Handbook. Penguin (paperback)
*G Wells. The Meaning Makers. Heinemann
*R Routman. Transitions from Literature to Literacy. Heinemann
*K Goodman, & Y. Goodman. The Whole Language Evaluation Book.
Heinemann
*D .
Holdaway. Stability and Change in Literacy Learning. Heinemann
