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    EDUCATION 472-4: DESIGNS FOR LEARNING:
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    ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS
    Fall Semester, 1988
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    Instructor: ?
    Melanie Zola
    Evenings, Wednesday, 4:30-8:20
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    Phone: ?
    291-3395 (SFU messages)
    Room: MPX 7600
    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.
    The 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. Firstly, and most importantly, it will focus
    on professional reading, supplemented by reflection and discussion. This will be rounded out by
    seminars; lectures; workshops and demonstrations; 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 (with special reference to what is termed 'whole
    language');
    * language learning and literacy;
    * 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.
    * the reading and writing processes - how to help children make the links;
    * reading and writing across the curriculum;
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
    * Attendance and participation in all parts of the course
    * Completion of assigned professional readings
    * Completion of brief oral and/or written assignments
    * Completion of professional Log book-cum-Resource book
    * Final examination
    REQUIRED TEXTS:
    *Judith Newman. 1983. Whole Language: Theor
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    In Use. Heinemann.
    *Jim Trelease. 1985. The Read Aloud Handbook. Penguin.
    *Liz Waterland. 1985. Read With Me: An Apprenticeship Approach to Reading. Thimble Press.
    *David Booth, Larry Swartz & Meguido Zola. 1987. Choosing Children's Books. Pembroke.
    *Donald Graves & Virginia Stuart. 1986. Write from The Start: Tapping Your Child's Natural
    Writing Ability,
    New American Library.
    *Marie M. Clay. 1975. What Did I Write? Heinemann. OR Writing Begins at Home.
    *Lucy McCormick Calkins. 1986. The Art of Teaching Writing. Heinemann.

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