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= = =Middle School Literacy &= =Language Arts Methods=
 * =EDUC 5423=

Monday / Wednesday 1:30 pm - 3:20 pm

Dr. H J Richmond PhD
richmond@stu.ca

Office: BMH 321 / Wed. 1:00 - 3:00 pm

STU Bachelor of Education Class 2009
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This course is for pre- and in-service teachers who teach stidents in grades five through eight. Middle school Language Arts teachers are responsible for making curricular decisions within the context of an organizational structure designed to be responsible for pre-adolescent learning needs. This course examines effective comprehension intruction and content literacy. The course will focus on designing lessons for active literacy comprehension across the middle years curriculum. The outomes examined will be based on provincial guidelines. Course assignments are designed to allow you to consider the realities of today's classroom. Activities will involve lesson planning, and the other practical and authentic applications of your developing knowledge base. Overall, participants in the course will be making conenctions between the language arts and the learners, and teacherss who meet in the middle years of schooling.