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instructor:
K.
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Semester 96-1
388 - 4 ST- TEACHING LANGUAGE ARTS IN
MULTILINGUAL, MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS
SITE: LANGLEY MEADOWS ELEMENTARY
Section: D1.00
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Scheduled Final Exam: NO
PREREQUISITE
Educ 401/402 (or permission from the instructor)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Office: 8544mpc
Tel: 291- 4418
Fax: 291-3203
E-mail: Kelleen_Toohey@sfu.ca
This course is intended to provide for pre-service teachers enrolled in the Langley Professional Development Schools
Project and for teachers working in Langley schools the opportunity to consider how language arts is most effectively
taught when students come from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
Participants will examine the following topics: languages as meaning-making systems; pre-school language
development; orality and learning; learing to write/learning to read; classrooms as environments fostering
language/literacy-development; evaluation of language skills. Recognizing that our learners come from diverse
backgrounds and bring diverse talents to the classroom, examining these topics should prepare teachers well for
operating effective language arts programs in elementary classrooms.
REQ REC
Literacy's Beginnings: Supporting
Young Readers and Writers
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Literacy: Helping Children
Construct Meaning
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X
Language and Learning Across
the Curriculum
Learning to Learn in aSecond
Language
You Can't Say You Can't Play
REQUIREMENTS
• Self Introduction
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10%
• Learning Log
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25%
• Observation of Language Arts Unit
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20%
• Language Arts Unit
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35%
• Statement of Personal Theory and Practice
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10%
READINGS Books will be available in the SFU Bookstore.
McGee, L. & Richgels, D. Allyn & Bacon
0-395647827 ?
Cooper, D.
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Houghton - Mifflin
0-205-16134-0 ?
Crowhurst, Marion
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Allyn & Bacon
0-435-08785-1 ?
Gibbons, Pauline
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Heinemann
0-674965892
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Paley, Vivian C.
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Harvard University
Press
