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    ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS
    Intersession and Summer Session, 1977 and 1976
    EDUC.
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    72-O4
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    Prof. Meguido Zola
    BLOCK V
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    Monday & Wednesday ?
    Faculty Associate
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    +.30-8.30
    P.M.
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    Team
    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.
    1st Movement: ?
    (4.30
    p.m. -
    5.45 p.m.) ?
    This part of each
    session 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
    Creative Dance
    Developmental Drama
    Communication Media
    Each of these expressive media will be explored for a period
    of five consecutive sessions, so that you will be able to
    participate in two of the four media.
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    You will supb1ement this
    work by completion of selected readings and by completion of an
    assignment in curriculum design relating to at least one of the
    media.
    This part of each session will conclude with a brief
    interval during which you will participate in a variety of
    experiences built around the reading of selected children's
    literature. ?
    You will supplement this work by completion of
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    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.
    2nd Movement: ?
    (5.45
    p.m. -
    7.45 p.m.) ?
    Through open-access ?
    learning centres, workshop presentations, and field experiences,
    this part of each session will provide you with experiences in
    learning about the teaching of Language Arts with a specific
    focus on:
    language growth & development in children;
    the Language Arts defined & some overviews of Language
    Arts programs examined;
    curriculum development with specific reference to
    the Language Arts -- diagnosis of needs, setting
    of objectives, planning & sequence, implementation,
    evaluation, integration of the Language Arts program;
    * aural-oral aspects of the Language Arts -- some
    dimensions of interaction; fostering & developing
    listening and speaking;
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    * reading -- the reading act;
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    instructional approaches,
    materials, and programs;
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    children's literature;
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    writing -- fostering & developing written expression;
    tools & techniques;
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    convention in writing (!including
    • spelling, punctuation, etc.);
    thinking:, the fifth Language Art;
    * grammar & usage;
    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.
    Recommended readings of a general kind include:
    Moffett, James.
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    A Student-Centered Language Arts Curriculum
    Grades K-13 or Grades K-6 Edition.
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    Houghton
    Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973.
    Van Allen, Roach,.
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    Language Experiences in Communication, Houghton
    Mifflin Company
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    , Boston, 1976.
    Veatch,, Jeannette.
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    Reading in the Elementary School, Ronald Press,
    N.Y.,
    1966.
    3rd Movement
    (7.45 'p.m. - 8.15 p.m.)
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    Through small group discussion
    this part of each sesss ion will enable you to reflect upon your
    ]earnings and to clarify your beliefs and ideas about the field.
    Requirements:
    Attendance and participa'tion in all parts of the course;
    Completion of readings; of a journal-cum-resource-boo; of
    assignments; ?
    Demonstration of achievement of'certain selected
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    competencies.
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