Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: This basic survey course is designed to familiarize teacher candidates with the characteristics of the middle-school child’s language, and provide documents provided by the Ontario Ministry of Education for developing language arts programs for the junior-intermediate levels. Course topics include: the development of language and thought; the selection, planning, implementation, and evaluation of learning opportunities in viewing, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The interrelated nature of these abilities will be explored in an attempt to provide a framework for meeting individual differences in language development. Offering: 2-0; 2-0
