College of Charleston
Department of
Elementary and Early Childhood Education
EDEE 640 Development of Language and Literacy
Course Calendar:
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Aug. 23 |
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) |
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Aug. 30 |
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 |
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Sept. 6
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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 |
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Sept. 13 |
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 |
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Sept. 20 |
Language Theorists Paper Story and Storytelling in the classroom Story Practice
Your Stories.
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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 |
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Sept. 27 |
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 |
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Oct. 4 |
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 |
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Oct. 11
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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 |
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Oct. 18 |
Language in Elementary Classrooms ANTICIPATION TAPE |
Directed Reading Activity Morphemic, Semantic, Syntactic, Pragmatic Development |
Ch. 11 |
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Oct. 25 |
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 |
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Nov. 1 |
TEST TWO |
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Chs. 10,11,12,13,& 14 |
All readings since the lst test |
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Nov. 8
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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 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 |
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Nov. 29 |
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 |
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Part 3- Scollen & Scollen, Tannen Ostrow |
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Dec. 6 |
FINAL EXAM 4-7 |
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