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MON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Summer Semester 2002
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EDUC 472 -4
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Designs for Learning:
Elementary Language Arts
Monday 17:30-21:20 in EDB 7600
E01.00
PREREQUISITE
Educ 401/402
DESCRIPTION
Louise Tow ill
Office: TBA
Phone: 291-3395 /430-1539
E-mail: louise_towill@sfu.ca
The course will focus on developing knowledge, skills and strategies to create a rich and stimulating
language arts program in the classroom. Issues in reading, writing, speaking and listening will be
examined through current theory and teaching practice. The course will provide you with a
framework to examine and reflect on your understandings about learning and teaching the language
arts.
The course will offer a broad range of experiences. These will include professional readings and
reflections, discussion and written response, individual tasks and small-group work.
TOPICS
• how children learn language: a socio-cultural process
• the development of oral language and listening skills
• the reading process
• the writing process
• the linking of reading and writing
• the integration of the Language Arts strands
• reading and writing across the curriculum
• assessment and evaluation
• children's literature in the Language Arts program
• developing an effective Language Arts program
REQUIREMENTS
• Completion of short oral and written assignments to be shared in class:
Quote summaries, preparation for discussions - 30%
• Performance standards writing assessment - 35%
• Designing an integrated Language Arts unit - 35%
No scheduled Final Exam
REQUIRED READINGS
Graves, D. A Fresh Look at Writing. Toronto, ON: Irwin Publishing, 1994.
Performance Standards: Writing. Province of B.C.: Ministry of Education.
Plus choose between
wicof
the two following texts:
Booth, D. Classroom Voices: Language Based Learning in the Elementary School. Toronto, ON:
Harcourt Brace, 1994.
(For teachers focusing on the teaching
of
reading and writing in the primary and early intermediate
grades - Gr. K - 4)
Crowhurst, M. Language and Learning Across the Curriculum. Scarborough, ON: Allyn & Bacon,
1994.
(For teachers focusing on the teaching
of
reading and writing in the upper intermediate grades - Cr. 5 - 7)
Centre for Distance Eduen
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
WMC 1300 291.3524
EDUCATION 472-4
DESIGNS FOR LEARNING: LANGUAGE ARTS
Elementary
Educ 472—Designs for Learning: Language Arts (Elementary) is an
instructional course organized for self-study. It is written for teachers and teachers
in training. It will also be of interest to librarians, youth workers, parents and,
indeed, anyone interested in learning something about that broad field of language,
literacy and learning and its pedagogical application.
PREREQUISITE: Education 4011402 or an equivalent teaching practicum.
GOALS OF THE COURSE:
Speaking, listening, reading and writing—the essentials of Language
Arts—are acts of mind by which we communicate as well as construct meaning.
Languaging, as both a means of communicating and making meaning, provides the
focus of this course. -
The course introduces you to a (necessarily) small but representative sample of
the range of questions comprising the field of language, literacy and learning. It
will also introduce you to a representative sample of the major ways of looking at
language, learning and literacy and a representative cross section of some of the
literature in the field.
The course rill provide you with a framework in which to examine and reflect
upon your beliefs regarding learning and teaching language; your role as teacher, in
engaging children in communicating and searching for meaning; the means by
which you can enhance language learning in your classroom.
OUTLINE OF TOPICS:
The course comprises an introduction and overview and four units that focus
on the following topics: Unit 1A Language, Literacy and Learning; Unit lB
Language Learning in the Classroom; Unit 2 Reading; Unit 3 Writing; Unit 4
Talk.
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Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
WMC 1300 291-3524
COURSE
REQUIREMENTS:
You are required to complete THREE of the four, units of work - Unit].A and B,
Unit 2 and Unit 3. You may complete Unit 4 if you-'wish. Doing so may result in
your final grade being adjusted upward (for example, from a B to a B+). It will not,
however, result in the grade being lowered. Each unit comprises professional
readings and written assignments that require you to: prepare for reading; read;
reflect on your readings; and extrapolate from and apply your readings.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
In addition to the
Study Guide
and the
Course Reader,
the following
textbooks are required:
David Booth, Larry Swartz and Meguido Zola.
Classroom Voices: Language-
Based Learning in the Elementary School,
Toronto, ON: Harcourt Brace
Canada, 1994.
Lucy McCormick-Calkins.
The Art of Teaching Writing. (2nd ed.)
Portsmouth,
N.H. Heinemann Educational Books, 1994.
Marcia Popp.
Teaching Language and Literature in Elementary Classrooms.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.
Gordon Wells.
The Meaning Makers.
London: Heinemann Educational Books,
1986.
SUPPLEMENTARY FEES:
Course Materials & Service Fee
$30
Deposit for Additional Materials
$20
10/27/98
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