Description
This course involves instruction in teaching, in accordance with the New York State Standards in English Language Arts, the literacy skill of writing in the areas of grammar usage, the writing domains, structure, research, letters, debate, vocabulary, and critique of various publication forms, to native English speakers and students who are English-language learners. Methods of writing enrichment and remediation for diverse learners and students with disabilities needs are included in the course. The course provides multiple methods for teaching sentence structure, paragraphing, varied essay formats, outlining, formats of correspondence, techniques and strategies of debate, types of diction, and manipulation of language in advertisement and propaganda. Teacher candidates will learn a multi-dimensional approach through participation in each of the aforementioned areas. This includes utilization of multimedia technology in authoring through presentation slide, and/or hypermedia/nonli