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Course: Educ 472-04
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Designs
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for Learning: Language
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Arts (Elementary)
Calendar Descript4on: Planning for Learning; Creating Learning
Environments; Developing Teaching Strategies and Materials
Course information: ?
Instructor
B. C. Bondar
Dates
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July 2-Aug.8 I M,W
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Times
14:30-17:20
12:30-14:20
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M,W 8:30-11:20
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8:30-10:20
Course Proposition:
The curtain raiser of this course will overview the development of
learning and comprehension in relation to language growth and fluency
(with special reference to reading, writing and spelling). Material from
ALL content areas will then be considered target and fair game for
developing language arts to reinforce learning and relevance. Content matter
will be used as language material;
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literature, as content matter.
Having ransacked the school curricula, Real World materials will be
examined and their school use planned as language arts'. So, SAVE
boxtops! comicbooks! bubblegum cards! labels! wrappers! broken
filmstrips! racing forms! menus! paper planes! With all this stuff and
whatnot, learning centres will be planned for totally student-initiated
programs. Then, having saved and shaped education for the future,
nothing will remain except to establish evaluation criteria for texts,
teachers and kids (with special reference to miscellaneous readability
scales and tests, miscue analysis and library reading lists).
Recommended Reading:
Arbuthnot, May Hill and Zena Sutherland. Children and Books.. 4th ed.
Scott, Foresman & Co., 1972.
Brown, Roger. Words and Things. Free Press, 1958.
Goodman, Yetta M. and Carolyn L. Burke. Reading Miscue Inventory
Manual. Coil ier
. -Macmillan, 1972.
Postman, Neil and Charles Weingartner. Teaching As a Subversive
Activity. Deiacorte, 1969.
Smith, Frank. Comprehension and Learning. Holt, 1975.