Curriculum Design And Instruction To Teach
Language Arts: English, ESL, Reading, Media,
Speech.
Designed Specifically for the State National
Examination In Language Arts: For Graduate &
Undergraduate students seeking certification in
this subject area:
Author: Charles Hayes:
Special Features Include:
Phases For Conducting A Needs Assessment:
Curriculum Design Supplement:
Curriculum Design Plan:
Lesson Plans:
Test:
Instructional Goals:
Instructional Objectives:
Instructional Activities:
Instructional Evaluation Techniques:
Standard Vocabulary:
A Limited Glimpse:
Topics Include:
* Introduction:
I. English:
A. Writing: Students will learn to:
1. Apply the rules of punctuation:
2. Understand how sentences are revised:
3. Understand the development of paragraphs
and compositions:
4. Understand the writing process:
5. Identify the forms and purposes of informative
and persuasive writing:
6. Apply organizational techniques in writing:
7. Apply vocabulary skills (e.g., synonyms and
context clues) to improve comprehension:
8. Use interpretive comprehension skills in reading:
9. Use evaluative and critical thinking skills in
reading:
10. Apply library and study skills:
11. Understand the elements of traditional English
grammar:
12. Apply the rules of traditional English grammar:
13. Understand sentence types and sentence
structures:
14. Understand the conventions and diversity of
uses of language in written and oral
communication:
15. Understand how listening relates to
comprehension:
16. Understand effective speaking:
II. English as a Second Language:
A. You will learn to:
1. Understand learning theories,
strategies, and styles for ESL
instruction:
2. Understand concepts of culture:
3. Understand how culture and
language are related:
4. Identify techniques used in
effective listening:
5. Understand effective speaking and
appropriate use of speaking styles
and levels in non-academic interactive
situations:
6. Understand effective speaking and
appropriate use of speaking
styles in academic interactive
situations:
7. Understand English grammar, mechanics,
and usage:
8. Understand techniques used in writing
paragraphs and compositions:
9. Use literal, interpretive, and
evaluative skills in reading:
10. Understand how to administer, score,
and interpret a variety of educational
assessment instruments:
11. Identify methods of screening, diagnosing,
and placing students for ESL instruction:
12. Understand the assessment of cognitive-
academic skills in oral English:
13. Recognize problems that ESL students
may have with cognitive-academic
communication skills in English,
including problems in the content areas:
14. Understand the principles of ESL programs:
15. Understand the role of ESL within programs
for limited English proficiency students in
Illinois & other states:
16. Understand instructional approaches to
teaching English as a second language:
17. Identify ways to adapt curricula, instructional
activities, and materials for teaching
English as a second language:
18. Identify techniques of instruction in
communication and academic skills
for ESL students:
19. Identify methods of coordinating ESL
instruction with other education staff:
20. Recognize the effects of student differences
in ESL classrooms:
III. Media:
A. You will learn to:
1. Understand school library media
program public relations:
2. Understand budgetary procedures:
3. Understand the development and
implementation of the school
library media center program:
4. Analyze the information needs of
school library media center users
and non-users:
5. Understand criteria used to evaluate
the school library media center program:
6. Understand professional standards,
guidelines, and ethical responsibilities
related to the school library media center
program.
7. Analyze procedures (including computer-based
methods) and policies used in collection
development for the school library media
center program:
8. Understand circulation patterns, controls,
policies, and systems:
9. Understand the relationship between the
school library media center program and
the curriculum:
10. Understand instruction of students in
library media skills:
11. Understand how to administer, score,
and interpret a variety of educational
assessment instruments:
12. Understand reference and bibliographic
services in the school library media center:
13. Understand school library media services for
students with special educational needs
(e.g., learning disabled, gifted, and students
with different cultural and linguistic
backgrounds):
14. Understand encyclopedias, atlases,
gazetteers, dictionaries, and thesauruses:
15. Identify types and forms of literature and their
characteristics:
16. Identify major authors and illustrators of
children's literature and their works:
17. Identify major issues related to literature
for children and young adults:
18. Recognize the social responsibilities of the
school library media center program in relation
to literature:
19. Understand the design of instructional
materials:
20. Understand the use of audio-visual and
multimedia equipment:
IV. Reading:
A. You will learn to:
1. Use skills of phonic analysis and
structural analysis:
2. Identify techiques for teaching word
analysis and word recognition skills:
3. Identify techniques for teaching
vocabulary and syntax:
4. Understand techniques for reading
readiness instruction and for
fostering emergent literacy:
5. Understand inferential comprehension
skills:
6. Understand critical thinking skills:
7. Understand the interrelationship of
listening, speaking, writing, and
reading skills:
8. Identify instructional strategies for
teaching comprehension and composition
as related skills, comprehension of
longer passages, and the integration of
information from more than one text:
9. Identify types and characteristics of
nonfiction:
10. Identify ways to help students develop
literary appreciation:
11. Identify techniques for teaching reference
skills:
12. Identify and apply knowledge of ways to use
reading strategies:
13. Identify and apply knowledge of activities
to promote the use of reading strategies
for content-area reading:
14. Understand instructional strategies for
using reading for different purposes:
15. Understand the psycholinguistic and
sociolinguistic foundations for reading:
16. Understand principles of reading curricula:
17. Identify and apply knowledge of methods of
screening, diagnosing, and placing students
for reading instruction:
18. Identify and apply knowledge of informal
reading assessment methods and instruments:
19. Analyze instructional approaches in reading:
20. Analyze cultural and linguistic factors and
instructional strategies in relation to reading
instruction:
V. Speech:
A. You will learn to:
1. Understand types of communication
(eg., interpersonal) and their
characteristics:
2. Understand listening skills:
3. Understand writing skills required
for oral communication:
4. Understand verbal communication:
5. Understand nonverbal communication:
6. Understand interpersonal communication:
7. Analyze cultural factors that influence
interpersonal communication:
8. Understand the roles and responsibilities
of the individual in group discussion:
9. Understand the processes of group problem
solving and decision making:
10. Analyze factors in planning a speech:
11. Apply research skills used in speech
preparation:
12. Analyze elements of effective speech
delivery:
13. Understand the structure of speech:
14. Apply the principles of effective
reasoning in argumentation and
persuasion:
16. Understand the use of evidence in
argumentation and persuasion:
17. Understand the elements of drama:
18. Understand the characteristics and
functions of mass communication
(including print and nonprint media):
19. Apply critical evaluation techniques to
mass media broadcasting:
20. Understand how to administer, score, and
interpret a variety of educational assessment
instruments:
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