COD 2010 - D045

Literacy Acquisition in Primary Schools

Primary School Teachers.

4 sessions, start: 03-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: A distancia
Facilitator/s: Ms. Inés Stefani
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 260.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 03 August 2010 Online session
2 10 August 2010 Online session
3 17 August 2010 Online session
4 24 August 2010 Online session

Facilitator/s

Inés Stefani

Inés Stefani is a Uruguayan teacher who graduated from "Magisterio" in 1980 and since then has taught at bilingual schools. In 1989 she graduated as a Reading Recovery teacher in New Zealand. She has worked and studied for 4 years in that country. She later completed a Bachelors of Education in Teaching, and a Masters Degree in Teaching at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as well as a Certificate in School Middle Management, at UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand. Inés has been doing consultancy work, in the field of literacy acquisition, nationally and internationally, especially in Brazil and Argentina since 2003. She was Academic Principal from 2005 to 2010 and Head of School from 2011 to 2017 at Woodlands School, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
She has just recently retired from that job, after 37 years of teaching, and is back doing consultancy work.She is currently teaching at Universidad de Montevideo at Magisterio Bilingual.
Primary School Teachers.

- Organizing and using materials.
- Develop a self-extending system in students.
- Develop users of the language.
- Teaching and learning all aspects of the language: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Understanding and using efficient models of learning: deep learning as opposed to shallow learning.
Course Syllabus
You will have 1 month to complete this course.

- Lesson 1: What is language?
Vygotsky. Language Development.
Oral language.How to promote oral language acquisition. Listening and speaking.
Developing vocabulary, structure and pronunciation.
Nursery Rhymes, songs and stories

- Lesson 2: Reading.
What is reading? Reading strategies. How to run a rich reading programme.

- Lesson 3: Writing.
Genres, topics, conventions. The writing process. Reasons for writing.
Developing writing. Stages. Writing confrerences. Editing. Looking at writing (assessing). The 6 traits in writing.

- Lesson 4: Effective Learning Models. Putting it all together.
Online course.
Learning Media, Wellington, New Zealand:
- Effective Literacy Practice in Years 1 to 4
- Effective Literacy Practice in Years 5 to 8
- Guided Reading: Years 1 to 4 (book and video)
- Guided Reading: Years 5 to 8 (book and video)
- Dancing With the Pen.
- Shared Reading for Grades 3 and Beyond: Working It Out Together by Sue Brown

Auckland College of Education:
- Teaching Writing (video)

Regie Routman (Heinemann):
- Reading Essentials, The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well.
- Writing Essentials, Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching.
- Teaching Essentials, Expecting the Most and Getting the Bets From Every Learner, K –8.


Donald Graves (Heinemann):
- Writing, Teachers & Children at Work.

Brian Cambourne (Scholastic):
- The Whole Story: Natural Learning & the Acquisition of Literacy in the Classroom.

Frank Smith (Heinemann):
- Essays into Literacy.
- Joining the Literacy Club-

Stephen Krashen (Heinemann):
- Research into Reading.
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