Language arts is the term typically used by educators to describe the curriculum area that includes four modes of language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Language arts teaching constitutes a particularly important area in teacher education, since listening, speaking, reading, and writing permeate the curriculum; they are essential to learning and to the demonstration of learning in every content area. Teachers are charged with guiding students toward proficiency in these four language modes, which can be compared and contrasted in several ways. Listening and speaking involve oral language and are often referred to as primary modes since they are acquired naturally in home and community environments before children come to school. Reading and writing, the written language modes, are acquired differently. Although children from literate environments often come to school with considerable knowledge about printed language, reading and writing are widely considered to be the school's responsibility and are formally taugh
Language arts teaching constitutes a particularly important area in teacher ... in these four language modes, which can be compared and contrasted in several ways. ... Listening and reading, on the other hand, are more "receptive" modes; they ... traditions of the culture through the study of an agreed-upon body of literature.
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The main effect produced by the repeated word pattern in the first two stanzas of the poem "Your Laughter" is <u>By drawing a comparison through repetition of word patterns, the speaker subtly suggests that he can live without many common things, but would cease to live if he were denied his lover's laughter. </u>
