Advanced Studies in Language Arts

This is a course in the language arts with specific emphasis on the relationships that exist among reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing. Students will study current theory regarding language arts instruction and examine its role in relation to all areas of the curriculum. Through discussion and participation, the students will become familiar with organizational structures that encourage language learning in the language arts areas. In addition to organizational considerations, the course will address issues such as storytelling and story reading, adaptations for special populations, visual literacy, writing in a variety of forms (poetic, narrative, expository, and persuasive), handwriting, spelling instruction, and assessment.