Teaching Language Arts in the Elementary and Middle School

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Description: Learning theory, content, and methods related to teaching spoken, written, and visual forms of communication. Focus is on listening, speaking, writing and on teaching knowledge, skills and strategies inherent in those processes. Stresses integration of central literacy components (reading, writing, speaking, listening to, and viewing a wide range of texts in a variety of forms) and across the curriculum, teaching diverse learners and perspectives, inquiry, and critical literacy.