WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF EDUCATION
SIERRA VISTA CAMPUS
Mission: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically challenging,
learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment for professional success, lifelong learning,
and service to God and humankind.
COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE: EDLI 3307 Literature-Based Approaches to Teaching Reading
TERM AND DATES: Fall, 2009
OFFICE HOURS:
August 17 – November 2
Monday 5:00 – 5:30, or at your request
INSTRUCTOR’S NAME:
PHONE NUMBER(S):
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
Lisa Benavides
520-678-1551
lisamayb4@yahoo.com
CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION: Knowledge of narrative and expository children’s books and
how they are used to develop comprehension and fluency in reading. Emphasis is placed on
commercially prepared reading systems that utilize literature as the basis for teaching reading.
PREREQUISITES: None in catalog.
REQUIRED RESOURCE MATERIALS:
Hancock, M. (2008). A Celebration of Literature and Response (3nd ed.). Columbus, Ohio:
Pearson.
primary course text
REQUIRED FIELD EXPERIENCE HOURS (minimum requirement): 5
*Successful completion of field experience hours is required for course credit.
COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Reader response to literature
2. Major genres and awards in children’s literature (e.g., Newbery)
3. Effective read-aloud techniques
4. Reading fluency: What it is and how its developed
5. Integrating speaking, listening, reading, and writing into responses to literature
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: The student will
1. Demonstrate knowledge of literature genre and children’s literature awards
2. Demonstrate how elementary-age students’ fluency, comprehension, listening, speaking
and writing abilities can be enhanced through children’s literature.
3. Complete the required 5 hours of field experience with elementary-age children and
provide evidence
4. Demonstrate proficiency in effectively reading aloud children’s books
5. Complete successfully one or more exams directly related to course competencies and
student learning outcomes
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
The student will
1. Demonstrate familiarity with children’s literature and provide multiple opportunities for
children to listen and respond to a wide variety of children’s literature, both fiction and
nonfiction, and to interact with others about literature.
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2. Provide knowledge of children’s authors and their purposes for writing Perform effective
read alouds for children so that they understand, listen, and respond.
3. Experience and show knowledge of various technology to help children gain access to a
wide range of narrative and expository texts (e.g., CDs, DVDs-books)
4. Demonstrate understanding of oral language development through children’s varied
opportunities to develop listening and speaking skills.
5. Select and use instructional strategies, materials, and activities to develop reading fluency
(e.g., reading independent-level materials, reading orally familiar texts, repeated
reading…) specifically with children’s books
6. Show how reading comprehension can be developed using children’s literature
7. Use purposeful, meaningful writing in connection with listening, reading, and speaking that
involves children’s literature
MEANS FOR ASSESSING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OUTCOME COMPETENCIES:
(Additional assessments MAY be added, but those listed MUST be utilized.)
1. Class-to-class assignments that cover many of the course outcomes, following directions,
and turning them in on time. (Outcomes 1-8)
2. Notebook compiled of your 50 books(across genre) read & responded to (Outcome 1)
3. Field experiences using children’s books (Outcomes 3, 5, 7)
4. In-class small group presentations of effective strategies for integrating speaking, listening,
reading, writing with children’s literature (Outcomes 3, 5, 6, 7, 8)
5. Computer/Internet resources for children’s literature (Outcomes 1, 2, 4)
6. Class exams (Outcomes 1-8)
ATTENDANCE POLICY:
Campus Attendance Policy
The University expects students to make class attendance a priority. All absences must
be explained to the instructor who will determine whether omitted work may be made up.
When a student reaches the number of absences considered by the instructor to be excessive,
the instructor will so advise the student and file an unsatisfactory progress report with the dean
at the campus where the course is offered. Any student who misses 25% or more of the
regularly scheduled class meetings may receive a grade of “F” in the course. Additional
attendance policies for each course, as defined by the instructor in the course syllabus, are
considered a part of the university’s attendance policy. A student may petition the Academic
Council for exceptions to the above stated policies by filing a written request for an appeal to
the provost/academic vice president.
EVALUATION: Grades for courses shall be recorded by the symbols below:
UNIVERSITY GRADING SYSTEM:
A
B
C
D
F
900-1000
800-899
700-799
600-699
below 600
Cr
NCR
I
W
WP
WF
X
IP
for Credit
No Credit
Incomplete*
for withdrawal
Withdrawal Passing
Withdrawal Failing
No grade given
In Progress
A grade of “CR” indicates that credit in semester hours was granted but no grade or grade points were
recorded.
*A grade of incomplete is changed if the work required is completed prior to the date indicated in the
official University calendar of the next long term, unless the instructor designates an earlier date for
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completion. If the work is not completed by the appropriate date, the I is converted to the grade of F.
An incomplete notation cannot remain on the student’s permanent record and must be replaced by
the qualitative grade (A-F) by the date specified in the official University calendar of the next regular
term.
COURSE GRADING CRITERIA:
1. Participation, readings, and responses will be given points. Each week you can earn two
participation points. If/When you are absent, you will not earn participation points.
2. Your personal record of at least 50 children’s books read will be graded using a scoring
rubric.
3. In-class demonstrations will be graded using a scoring rubric.
4. Field experience literature-based activities will be graded using a signed (by classroom
teacher) journal on which you will record your visits.
5. The internet resources report on authors and literature resources will be graded using a
rubric.
6. The 2 tests will be graded using a rubric.
Participation
22 points
Notebook of children’s books 12 points
Field experiences/journal
12 points
CD/DVD/Internet report
12 points
Reading Response Journal 12 points
Midterm Test
15 points
Final Test
15 points
TOTAL:
100 points
ACADEMIC HONESTY:
Wayland students are expected to conduct themselves according to the highest standards of
academic honesty. Academic misconduct for which a student is subject to penalty includes all forms
of cheating, such as possession of examinations or examination materials, forgery, or plagiarism.
Disciplinary action for academic misconduct is the responsibility of the faculty member assigned to the
course. The faculty member is charged with assessing the gravity of any case of academic
dishonesty and with giving sanctions to any student involved. The faculty member involved will file a
record of the offense and the punishment imposed with the dean of the division, campus dean, and
the provost/academic vice president. Any student who has been penalized for academic dishonesty
has the right to appeal the judgment or the penalty assessed.
Plagiarism
“Plagiarism — The attempt to represent the work of another, as it may relate to written or oral works,
computer-based work, mode of creative expression (i.e. music, media or the visual arts), as the
product of one's own thought, whether the other's work is published or unpublished, or simply the
work of a fellow student.
1. When a student submits oral or written work for credit that includes the words, ideas, or data of
others, the source of that information must be acknowledged through complete, accurate, and
specific references, and, if verbatim statements are included, through use of quotation marks
as well. By placing one’s name on work submitted for credit, the student certifies the originality
of all work not otherwise identified by appropriate acknowledgements. A student will avoid
being charged with plagiarism if there is an acknowledgement of indebtedness.”
Source: http://www.spjc.cc.fl.us/webcentral/admit/honesty.htm#plag
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Disability Statement: “In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it is the
policy of Wayland Baptist University that no otherwise qualified person with a disability be excluded
from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational
program or activity in the university. The Coordinator of Counseling Services serves as the
coordinator of students with a disability and should be contacted concerning accommodation requests
at (806) 291- 3765. Documentation of a disability must accompany any request for accommodations.”
COURSE SCHEDULE:
Weeks are divided by a dotted line.
Date
Topic
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Textbook,
*H “The Giver” Chapter 2-6
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*H “The Giver” Chapter 7- 11
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“The Giver” Reading Response Journal, Book Reviews/Read Aloud, Chapter 4,5 Textbook
*H “The Giver” Chapter 12-end
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Holiday
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*H “Island of the Blue Dolphins”
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Chapter 8,9 Textbook *H “Island…..”
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9/28 Midterm Exam
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“Island…” RR Journal, Book Reviews/Read Aloud, Chapter 10, 11 Textbook
*H “Hatchet”
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*H “Hatchet”
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*H “Hatchet”
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10/26 “Hatchet” RR Journal, Book Reviews/Read Aloud, Present your book collection notebook, RR
journal, field experience journal, CD/DVD/Internet Report
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11/2
Final Exam
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