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Educ. 472-4 Designs for Learning: English and Language Arts
(ELEMENTARY)
SUMMER SESSION 1982
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INSTRUCTOR: Aileen Kirkham
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Friday 1:00 - 4:50
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LOCATION: on campus
This course is offered to students and practicing teachers who wish to explore
the curriculum area and approach to learning called the Language Arts. The course
is designed to introduce you to planning for learning, creating learning environ-
ments, and developing strategies, techniques, and materials in Language Arts in
the elementary school.
Experiences in Language Arts will be provided through workshop presentations,
seminars, individualized tasks and group activities. The topics covered will
include:
• curriculum development in Language Arts -- diagnosing needs, setting
objectives, planning, implementing, evaluating;
• reading - instructional approaches, materials, and programs; children's
literature; relationship to writing;
• writing - fostering and developing written expression; tools and techniques
convention in writing (including spelling, punctuation, etc.): grammar;
usage;
* aural-oral aspects of the Language Arts -- fostering and developing
skills of listening and speaking; drama; media;
* thinking - the fifth Language Art
* integration of Language Arts with other areas of curriculum.
REQUIREMENTS:
Students will be required to choose a major curriculum project for in-depth
independent study. Through this project, each student will explore the theoretical
background of a chosen topic by writing a discussion paper and will demonstrate
practical classroom application by making a project presentation in class. In
addition, students will be required to attend and participate in all parts of
the course; complete required readings; respond to brief in-class assignments;
demonstrate competancy in selected small group activities.
REQUIRED TEXT:
Petty, Walter 1., Petty, Dorothy C., Becking, Marjorie F. Experiences in Language.
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Bacon Inc. Boston (latest edition).
RECOMMENDED TEXT:
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia. Teacher.
Holdaway, Don. The Foundations of Literacy.
McCracken, Marlene F Robert. Reading, Writing and Language.
Moffett, James, Wagner, Betty Jane. Student Centred Language Arts
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Reading K-13.