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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION 472-4
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ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS (ELEMENTARY)
Fall Semester, 1990
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Instructor:
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Meredyth Kezar
Tuesdays, 4:30 - 8:20 p.m.
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Phone:
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291-3395 (SFtJ)
Location: MPX 7504
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876-9816 (home)
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed for teachers to explore a language communication-based
approach to learning, Language Arts. The elements of Language Arts - listening,
speaking, reading, writing, viewing and representing enable us to make meaning of
our world. The goal of an effective Language Arts program should be to enable each
student to experience literature and use language with satisfaction and confidence,
striving for fluency, precision, clarity, and independence.
How to achieve this goal effectively will be the focus of this course. This will be
learner-centred enabling you to reflect on your classroom teaching and professional
reading and to experience and experiment with new ideas, methods, and resources.
Topics include:
Language learning and literacy
What is "Whole Language?"
Children's Literature, it's place in Language Arts
Planning and evaluating student learning in the Language Arts curriculum
Reading and Writing: A process approach
Oral Language: Discussions, dialogue, drama, storytelling, listening
Language across the curriculum: Integration and strategies
Teacher as researcher
Language Arts in a multicultural setting
Critical and creative thought and expression
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
In addition to attendance and participation in all parts of the course, students will be
expected to complete the following:
Assigned professional readings and journal.
Class learning log
Literature dialogue journal
A short paper relating theory to practice
A teaching unit relating theory to practice
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REQUIRED TEXTS
Ministry of Education, Curriculum Development Branch. (1990). Language Arts
English Primar
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- Graduation, Province of British Columbia.
Nancie Atwell. (Ed.). (1990). Coming to know - Writing to learn in the intermediate
grades. Heineman.
Connie White. (1990). Jevon Doesn't Sit at the Back Anymore. Scholastic.
Jerome C. Harste, Kathy G. Short, with Carolyn Burke. (1988). Creatin
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for Authors.
Heineman.
RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Lucy McCormick Calkins. (1986). The Art of Teaching Writing. Heineman.
Bernice E. Cullinan. (1987). Children's Literature in the Reading Program.
International Reading Association.
