College of Charleston
EDEE 325.002 Language and Literacy Development

Course Calendar

Spring 2008

Date	Topic				Assignment			Otto		Power & Hubbard
Jan. 10	Course Overview: Introductions Reflections on individual experience Inquiry into the nature of language				Define anthropology, sociology, psychology, culture, community, and family for yourself. Examine the impact of language in each of these areas			Ch. 1		Learning how to research language in your classroom (Preface)
Jan. 15 Jan. 17	What is language—components, characteristics, universal origins Language Acquisition and Theories of Stages BABY TALK TAPE				Read e-reserve Baker to see how language is transcribed. 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
Jan. 22 Jan. 24	Language Development Prior to School READING MATTERS TAPE Language Functions BIG BOOK TAPE Group Work Day				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
Jan. 29 Jan. 31	Literacy in Kindergarten & First Grade EMERGENT LITERACY TAPES Language Settings and Story The Call Of Story				Emergent Literacy Analysis Read e-reserve Temple & Gillet—Chapter 3 Storytelling			Ch. 8 & Ch. 9		Part 2—Newkirk & McLure; Fletcher
Feb. 5 Feb. 7	Story and storytelling in the classroom Story Practice Language Theorists Paper					Read e-reserve Forest—Storytelling Read e-reserve Roney—Back to the Basics with Storytelling Read e-reserve—Storyteller Ross 5 minute Paper Presentation by each Language Theorist Group
Feb. 12 Feb. 14		Language Theorists Paper TEST ONE				5 minute Paper Presentation by each Language Theorist Group Test Preparation 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
Date		Topic		Assignment			Otto		Power & Hubbard
Feb. 19 Feb. 21		Language Assessment GUIDED READING TAPE---Running Record Assessment Home /School Language Connections		Relating Assessment to Child Language Disorders and Language Systems. Evaluating what we have seen in Classrooms Class Discussion of HOME/SCHOOL INTERVIEWS			Ch. 12 (Ch. 13) Ch.14		Part 3--Wolkomir
Feb. 26 Feb. 28		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
March 4 & 6 SPRING BREAK
Mar. 11 Mar. 13		Language in Elementary Classrooms/ DRA ANTICIPATION TAPE	Read e-reserve Burns, Roe, and Smith Directed Reading Activity				Ch. 11
Mar. 18 Mar. 20		Elementary Classroom Language Literacy/Strategies KWL/DRA/CONCEPT	Morphemic, Semantic, Syntactic, Pragmatic Development LANGUAGE AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUE						Part 2—Madden; MacKay; Young,; Rowe; Lindfors

Date	Topic	Assignment	Otto	Power & Hubbard
Mar. 25 Mar. 27	TEST PREPARATION TEST TWO		Chs. 10,11,12,13, & 14	All readings since the lst test.
April 1 April 3 April 8 April 10	Middle School Language and Strategies—DRTA Development as Speakers, Spellers, Readers, Writers READING/ WRITING RESPONSE TAPE Middle School Functions SKETCH TO STRETCH TAPE Dialect and ESL in Schools and Society Code Switching/Dialect Strategies	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-reserve McWhorter—Spreading the word Garcia & Jensen—Helping Young Hispanic Learners	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

Date	Topic	Assignment	Otto	Power & Hubbard
April 15 April 17 April 22	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		Part 3- Scollen & Scollen, Tannen Ostrow
May 1	FINAL EXAM 12-3