ENGL 920 (01) - Issues in Teaching English and the Language Arts

Issues Teaching Engl&Lang Arts

Durham Liberal Arts::English
Credits: 2.0
Class Size: 15 
Term:  Summer 2025 - Special Summer Session (05/19/2025 - 08/24/2025)
CRN:  70744
Grade Mode:  Letter Grading
Special topics in the teaching of English and the language arts. Inquire at the English department to see what topics in the teaching of reading, writing, literature, or language arts may be scheduled. Open only to graduate students with a professional interest in teaching or to practicing teachers. 1-6 credits depending on the specific course.
Instructors:  STAFF

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
7/14/2025 7/18/2025 MTWRF 8:10am - 2:30pm HS 103

Additional Course Details:

This course is intended for teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, teacher educators, and/or  educational administrators.  Pre-service teachers, dually enrolled in a graduate program,  MST and M.Ed. students, Ph.D. Students, and those seeking alternative pathways to teaching are also welcome. If you have questions about the course, please contact our Program Coordinator at literacy.institute@unh.edu and visit our website at https://cola.unh.edu/english/institutes/nh-literacy-institutes/summer-literacy-institutes for more information about our program, workshops, and other offerings.

Leveraging the Synergy Between the Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Standards
ENGL 920.01a, 8:15am-2:30pm in person plus two additional virtual classes. (3 credit)

Instructor: Jaclyn Karabinis
Run Dates: July 14th – 18th

The ELA standards can be daunting as a whole—especially if you are trying to simply tackle engagement among your students (and who isn’t?!?). In this course, we will navigate the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in reading, writing, speaking, and listening, making sense of not only how they fit together, but how they amplify our outcomes for reading and writing achievement.

With a focus on a Universal Design for Learning, this mindset will lead us to approach literacy full circle, addressing the full intention of the standards while honoring the genius of the learners in your care.

Participants will:

  • Learn to deconstruct the opportunities the ELA standards present through a lens of multidimensional literacy. (For teachers in grades K-5, we will also consider how these ELA standards can be leveraged for the other content areas.)
  • Practice ways humans interact with language through a receptive/generative language model
  • Develop a broad definition of what it means to interact with text that includes—and transcends—the printed word
  • Construct and share text sets and sample lesson sequences that leverage reading, writing, speaking, and listening

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