ED•TI )N 472-4: DESIGNS FOR LEARIs:

ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS (Elementary)

Summer Intersession, 1989

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Instructor: ?

Melanie Zola

(May 8 - June 16)

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Phone: ?

291-3395 (SFU messages)

Tuesday/Thursday ?

669-6701 (Home)

5:30 - 9:20 p.m.

Location: MPX 7500B

PREREQUISITE:

Educ. 401/402 or equivalent.

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; promotin-j 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');

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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 writin

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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

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Completion

Final examination

of professional Log book-cum-Resource book

REQUIRED TEXTS:

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Angela Jaggar and M. Strika Smith-Burke (Eds.). 1985. Observin

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the Lan

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e Learner. I.R.A.

* Regie Routman. 1988. Transitions: From Literature to Literacy. Heinemann.

*Nancie Atwell. 1987. In the Middle: Writing. Reading. and Learning with Adolescents.

Heinemann. (for Intermediate teachers only)

*Lucy McCormick Calkins. 1986 The Art of Teaching Writing. Heinemann.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

*Jim Trelease. 1985. The Read Aloud Handbook. Penguin.

*Joelie Hanock and Susan Hill (Eds.). 1988. Literature-based Reading Programs at Work.

Heinemann.