SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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Summer Session 2000
EDUC 473 - 4
RoniHaggarty
Designs for Learning: Reading
Office: MPX 9508
(K-12)
Phone: 291-5982
Wed & Fri 8:30-12:20 in MPX 7600
D02.00
PREREQUISITE
EDUC 401/402
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The French Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rouseau wrote, in his Confessions: "I do not know howl learned to read. 1 only remember
my first books and their
effect
on me; it is from my earliest reading that I date the unbroken consciousness of my own existence.
This course will examine various approaches to the complex process of reading. It will focus on the place of
reading in a balanced literacy program, and it will explore some of the major methods, strategies and techniques
of reading instruction. Participants will learn about and practise essential elements for establishing a classroom
environment that promotes literacy acquisition throughout the grades.
TOPICS
• How we learn to read
• The cues and strategies readers use
• The big ideas around literacy
• The teacher's role: linking practice to theory
• Strategy teaching
• Reading and writing connections
• Guided reading
• Using literature to promote literacy
• Helping the struggling reader
• Learning environments that promote literacy
• Assessment and evaluation
REQUIREMENTS
Participants will actively involve themselves in course readings, discussions of the readings and group activities.
ASSIGNMENTS
1.
Reading Circle: reading, reflecting and responding to course readings (25%)
2.
A Child Study on Reading Behaviour: participants will arrange to work with an elementary/ secondary
age child on their own time through the course (30%)
3. Strategy demonstration: small group presentation (20%)
4.
Individual Project for Reading Fair (25%)
REQUIRED TEXTS
May, Frank. (1997). Reading as Communication (5th ed.). Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada.
ISBN 0-13494683-9.
British Columbia Ministry of Education. (1994). Evaluating Reading Across the Curriculum: Using the
Reading Reference Set to Support Learning. RB0034.
Plus ONE of the following supplementary texts:
Primary and Intermediate grades:
Cunningham, P.M., & Allington, R.L. (1999). Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write. Don
Mills, ON: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-321-01339-5.
Fountas, I. & Pinnell, G. (1996). Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann. ISBN 0-435-0863-7.
Late Intermediate and Secondary grades:
Ruddell, M.R. (1997). Teaching Content: Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471365572.
RECOMMENDED TEXT
Manguel, Alberto. (1996). History of Reading. Alfred A. Knopf, Canada. ISBN 0-394-28032-6.
* Additional photocopied readings will be provided by instructor.
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