Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging

by Denise L. Calhoun

Overview

Effective communication enhances quality of life. In Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging, Denise Calhoun provides a language-based, interdisciplinary program to help older adults improve their communication skills. Each activity reveals new, creative, and fun ways to get individuals to speak, think, write, engage with others, and use their imagination. As the activities promote meaningful interactions and the creation of a stimulating environment, Changing Seasons underscores the importance of sustaining quality of life as we and those we love age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557538185
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2018
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Denise L. Calhoun is a national board-certified distinguished teacher in language arts. She holds a master's degree in educational psychology from California State University, Northridge; a teaching credential from the Graduate Department of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles; and a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. Calhoun mentors new teachers for the Los Angeles Unified School District and is a master teacher for California State University, Northridge, where she trains candidates for their credential program. Her research focuses on gerontology and health care. She is pursuing her doctorate in organizational leadership from Pepperdine University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

About the Program 1

Curriculum Goals 1

Curriculum Content 2

Curriculum Implementation 2

Tips for Facilitators 3

How to Use This Book 4

Oral Language 6

Strategies for Activities and Lessons 6

Getting Started 7

Warm-Up Activities 8

Lessons 13

Listening 14

Speaking 26

Vocabulary Building 34

Written Language 44

Activities 44

Lessons and Steps for Various Writing Styles 50

Expository Writing 50

Descriptive Writing 51

Persuasive Writing 53

Narrative Writing 55

Folklore 59

Poetry 61

Seasonal Activities 75

Abstract Art Activities 90

Appendices 99

Appendix A Additional Idioms, Commonly Misspelled Words, Food Words, and Recipes 99

Appendix B Questionnaires 106

Appendix C Graphic Organizers 110

Appendix D Sample Daily and Weekly Plans 114

Glossary 129

Resources 133

About the Author 139