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    EDUCATION
    472-4: DESIGNS FOR LEARNING:
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    ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS (ELEMENTARY)
    Fall Semester, 1987
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    Instructor: ?
    Sue Montabello
    September 8th - December 4th
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    Phone: ?
    291 - 3787 (office)
    Monday, 4:30 to 8:20
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    420 -
    2745
    (home)
    Room: ?
    MPX 8620
    COURSE OBJECTIVES
    This course is designed for teachers who wish to explore a language communication-based approach to
    learning, called the Language Arts. Speaking, listening, reading and writing - the essentials of
    Language Arts - are acts of mind by which we make meaning. As writers and readers, we have mutual
    goals, that of constructing meaning; promoting understanding; making sense of the world.
    This will provide a framework from which you will examine and reflect upon: your beliefs
    regarding learning and teaching the Language Arts; your role as teacher in engaging children in
    their search for meaning; the means by which to enhance language learning in your classroom.
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    he course is designed so as to enable you to reflect on your 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.
    OUTLINE OF TOPICS:
    Some of the topics which will be explored include:
    * the Language Arts defined; establishing priorities in language arts curriculum; some
    overviews of language arts programs;
    * language learning and literacy;
    * the reading and writing processes - how to help children make the links;
    * reading and writing across the curriculum;
    * aural-oral aspect of the Language Arts - some dimensions of interaction; fostering and
    developing listening and speaking;
    * children's literature in the Language Arts classroom.
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
    • Attendance and participation in all parts of the course
    • Completion of assigned professional readings
    * Completion of assigned children's novel readings
    * Completion of brief oral and/or written presentation and assignments.
    TEXTS:
    REQUIRED:
    *Lucy McCormich Calkins. 1986. The Art of Teaching Wriving.Heinemann (paperback)
    *Margaret Meek. 1986. Learning to Read, The Bodley Head (paperback)
    *Jim Trelease. 1985. The Read Aloud Handbook. Penguin. (paperback)
    *Liz Waterland. 1985. Read with Me: An Apprenticehsip Approach to Reading. Thimble
    Press. (paperback)
    RECOMMENDED:
    *Bernice E. Cullinan. 1987. Children's Literature in the Reading
    Program, International Reading Association. (paperback)

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