College of Charleston

325.001 Language and Literacy Development

Spring 2008

Course Calendar

Date	Topic				Assignment		Otto		Power & Hubbard
Jan. 14	Course Overview: Introductions Reflections on individual experience Inquiry into the nature of language and the systems involved What is language—components, characteristics, universal origins				Define anthropology, sociology, psychology, culture, community, and family for yourself. Examine the impact of language in each of these areas Read e-reserve Baker to see how language is transcribed.		Ch. 1		Learning how to research language in your classroom (Preface)
Jan. 21	Martin Luther King Day
Jan. 28	What is language—Continued Language Acquisition and Theories of Stages BABY TALK TAPE				Read e-reserve Yellin, Blake, Devries --Language Characteristics Read e-reserve Yellin, Blake, Devries --Language Acquisition		Ch. 2		Part 1—Rice, Martin, Heath, Power Part 3—Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek; Osborne; Berube
Feb. 4	Language Development Prior to School READING MATTERS TAPE Development of Language Systems-Phonetic, morphemic, semantic, syntactic, pragmatic Language Functions BIG BOOK TAPE				Read e-reserve Yellin, Blake, Devries—Language and Cognition Read e-reserve Piaget Yellin, Blake, Devries --Halliday Seven Functions of Language Groups work on Theorist Presentations		Ch. 4/5 & Ch. 6/7 Ch. 4/5 & Ch. 6/7		Part 1—Vygotsky, Piaget, Chomsky, Gardner Part1—Halliday; Part 2--Pinnel
Date	Topic				Assignment		Otto		Power & Hubbard
Feb. 11	Emergent Literacy Kindergarten & First Grade EMERGENT LITERACY TAPES Language Development, Settings, and Story				Emergent Literacy Analysis Read e-reserve Temple & Gillet—Chapter 3 Storytelling		Ch. 8 & Ch. 9		Part 2—Newkirk & McLure; Fletcher
Feb. 18	Language Theorists Paper Story and Storytelling in the classroom Story Practice Your Stories.				5 minute Paper Presentation by each Language Theorist Group Read e-reserve Forest—Storytelling Read e-reserve Roney—Back to the Basics with Storytelling Read e-reserve Ross—Storyteller PARENT INTERVIEW QUESTIONS /. HOME\SCHOOL INTERACTIONS
Feb. 25			TEST ONE		Review all assigned e-reserves		Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Ch. 4/5, Ch. 6/7, Ch. 8, Ch. 9			Review assigned authors in Parts 1 & 2
Mar. 3		SPRING BREAK
Date			Topic	Assignment		Otto		Power & Hubbard
Mar. 10			Language Assessment GUIDED READING TAPE---Running Record Assessment Home /School Language Connections	Relating Assessment to Child Language Evaluating what we have seen in Classrooms		Ch. 12 (Ch. 13) Ch.14		Part 3--Wolkomir
Mar. 17			Language in Primary/Elementary Classrooms Reading/Writing Tape Language in Elementary Classrooms TEACHERS TEACHING WRITING	Tape Analysis Development of Language Systems, Development as a Speaker, Reader, Writer, Speller Tape Analysis		Ch. 10.		Review Preface Part 2—Gallas, Anton-Oldenburg. Ballenger, Beseler, Griffin, Pappenheimer, & Swaim
Mar. 24			Language in Elementary Classrooms ANTICIPATION TAPE	Directed Reading Activity Morphemic, Semantic, Syntactic, Pragmatic Development		Ch. 11
Mar. 31			Elementary Classroom Language Literacy/Strategies KWL/DRA/QAR Semantic Mapping Semantic Feature Concept Guide ETC	Read e-reserve Burns, Roe, and Smith LANGUAGE AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUE		Test Review		Part 2—Madden; MacKay; Young, Rowe; Lindfors

Date	Topic	Assignment	Otto	Power & Hubbard
Apr. 7	TEST TWO		Chs. 10,11,12,13,& 14	All readings since the lst test
Apr. 14 Apr. 21	Middle School Language and Strategies Development as Speakers, Spellers, Readers, Writers READING/ WRITING RESPONSE TAPE Development of Language Systems Middle School Functions SKETCH TO STRETCH TAPE Dialect and ESL in Schools and Society Code Switching Christmas Books	Read e-reserve Hynds --Chs. 1-3 Read e-reserve Albright & Ariail--Tapping the Potential of Read Alouds in Middle School Read e-reserve Ivey—Reflections on Teaching Read e-reserves McWhorter—Spreading the Word Garcia & Jensen—Helping Young Hispanic Learners Villegas & Lucas—The Culturally Responsive Teacher	Ch. 3	Part 2—Cunningham, Review Lindfors Part 1-- Samway & Mckeon Part 3—Stiel; Valdez Part 1—Rickford & Rickford Part 2—Delpit Part 3—Wolfram Christensen
Apr. 23	Language, Family, Community, Culture Analysis of Models of Language Learning in Classrooms	Read e-reserve Handel—Family Reading Read e-reserve Piper— Intercultural Communication Read e-reserve Yellin, Blake & DeVries-Introduction to the Language Arts SC Standards for the Language Arts		Part 3- Scollen & Scollen, Tannen Ostrow
April 30	FINAL EXAM 12-3