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    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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    EDUCATION 472-4
    DESIGNS FOR LEARNING:
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    LANGUAGE ARTS (Elementary) ?
    (E1.00)
    Fall Semester, 1991
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    Instructor: ?
    Meguido Zola
    (September 3— November 29) ?
    Phone: ?
    291-3395 (SFU messages)
    Mondays, 4:30 - 8:20 p.m.
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    or e-mail
    Location: MPX 8620
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    669-6701 (Home)
    PREREQUISITE:
    EDUC 401/402, or equivalent.
    COURSE OBJECTIVES
    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
    course is designed for students and teachers who wish to explore a language
    communication-based approach to learning, called the Language Arts.
    This course will provide a framework in 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
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    REQUIRED TEXTS
    Gordon Wells,
    The Meaning Makers.
    London: Heinemann Educational Books,
    1986. ISBN 0-435-08247-7.
    Dorothy Butler,
    Cushla and Her Books,
    Boston, Mass.: The Horn Book Company,
    1982.
    Liz Waterland,
    Read with Me: An Apprenticeship Approach to Reading.
    Stroud,
    Gloucester, England: Thimble Press, 1988 (Revised Edition) ISBN 0-903355-27-
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    Liz Waterland (ed.),
    Apprenticeship in Action: Teachers Write about Read with Me.
    Stroud, Gloucester, England: Thimble Press, 1989 ISBN 0-903355-31-0.
    Fran Buncombe & Adrian Peetoom,
    Literature-Based Learning One School's
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    Learning.
    Richmond Hill, ON: Scholastic, 1988. ISBN 0-590-73252-8.
    Lucy McCormick-Calkins, (ed.)
    The Art of Teaching Writing.
    Portsmouth, N.H.:
    Heinemann, 1986. ISBN 0-435-08246-9.
    Kenneth Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman and Wendy J. Hood (eds.)
    The Whole
    Language Evaluation Book.
    Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1988
    ISBN 7725-17118.
    Dorothy Watson, Carolyn Burke, & Jerome Harste,
    Whole Language: Inquiring
    Voices.
    Scholastic Publications, ISBN 0590733710.

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