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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)