Advanced Strategies Lang Arts Educ (1-6)

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This course is about reading and writing as a source of pleasure and about new ways in which teachers can convey the sheer joy of doing things with words to younger students, grades 1-6. Using a series of popular and award-winning texts, this class will explore strategies for introducing poetry and prose to young readers, and will help teachers to develop a personal library of teaching materials that can be of immediate use in the teaching of language arts in the elementary school classroom. The course will pay particular attention to the ways in which difference-- cultural, racial, and physical-- is celebrated in stories and poems.