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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Intersession 1999

EDUC 472 -

Grant Wardle

Designs for Learning: Language Arts

Office: TBA

(K42)

Tel: (250) 562-6418

Location: Prince Geor g

e, B.C.

D05.00

E-mail: gjwardle@goldcity.net

PREREQUISITE

Educ 401/402

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course will focus on developing knowledge, skills, and strategies to create a rich and stimulating language arts

environment. Issues in reading, writing, listening, and speaking will be examined through current theory and

teaching practice. This course will provide you with the opportunity to examine and reflect upon your

understandings about learning and teaching language arts, and your role in engaging children in communicating

and searching for meaning. It will also allow you to examine your personal beliefs about children, the teacher,

and the curriculum. As well, you will investigate the benefits of creating a language rich environment.

The course will be made up largely of action-based learning experiences including seminars, group work,

responses, and demonstrations. Due to the broad nature of this course (K-12), students will have the opportunity to

complete a self-directed investigation of language arts at their preferred teaching level. There will be an emphasis on

the integration of the strands of language arts (reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing)

through the development of units of instruction. Upon completion of this course you should have an extensive

repertoire of strategies and materials to use in the language class.

TOPICS

• creating language rich environments

• language acquisition

• the reading process

• the writing process

REQUIREMENTS

• regular attendance and participation

• completion of assigned professional readings

• completion of assignments and projects

• portfolio assessment

• reading and writing across the curriculum

• developing an effective language arts program

REQUIRED READINGS

Popp, Marcia S. Teaching Language and Literature in Elementar

y Classrooms. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Associates, 1996 [Copp Clark Pitman: A Longman Co.] ISBN 0-8058-2253-4

Graves, D. & Sunstein, B. Portfolio Portraits Toronto, ON: Irwin Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0-7725-1938-2

Caulkins, Lucy McCormick. The Art of Teaching Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. ISBN

0-435-08809-2

(needed only by Elementary Teachers)

Atwell, N., In the Middle. Concord, ON: Irwin Publishing, 1998. ISBN 7725-2682-6

(needed only by high

school English Teachers)

Province of B.C. Integrated Resource Package: English Language Arts 8 - 10: 11 to 12 Victoria, B.C.: Ministry

of Education (needed only by high school English Teachers)

Province of B.C. Integrated Resource Package: English Language Arts K - 7 Victoria, B.C.: Ministry of

Education

(needed only by Elementary Teachers)

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

A list of recommended readings will be available on the first day of class and readings will be assigned throughout

the course.