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AN INTENSIVE STUDY OF READING

Special Topic Course: EDUC. 486 Spring Semester, 1976: 4 credits

Instructor: Jim McDowell

Time: Wednesday, 4:30 - 8:20 p.m.

Place: Joyce Street Centre ?

First Meeting: January 15 at

5082 Joyce Street ?

SFU, Bldg. 3

Objectives: This course has three objectives:

1.

To study what is required to learn to read.

2.

To examine the propositions that. ......

• the so called problem of reading has been solved;

• anyone in touch with their common senses can teach

reading;

• there are materials available which can give everyone

direct access to decoding and encoding the written

language.

3.

To find a way of working which corresponds with our common

sense and makes us more useful to learners.

Approach: Discussion and direct experience will be used to integrate a

theoretical and practical study of the following challenges facing a

teacher of reading:

1.

Understanding the relationship between a small child's mastery

of the challenge of learning to speak and the new challenge

of learning to read:

2.

Developing criteria for helping children meet the difficulties of

learning to read;

3.

Recognizing and practicing techniques for "subordinating teaching

to learning";

4.

Developing a repertoire of stimulating reading and writing activities

that can be used with students of various ages and abilities either with

or without the "Words in Color" materials.