Arts integration in diverse K-5 classrooms : cultivating literacy skills and conceptual understanding /
This practical resource emphasizes the special contribution that visual art, drama, music and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, this book helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate cur...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Language and literacy series.
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| Summary: | This practical resource emphasizes the special contribution that visual art, drama, music and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, this book helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population but does not ignore other important aspects of healthy human development. Without detracting from the rigor of a demanding curriculum, the author demonstrates how arts integration allows students to engage with concepts on their own developmental level. Each chapter focuses on a skill set that is fundamental to literacy development, suggests age-appropriate arts integration activities that will build that skill and offers guidance for fostering a sense of community. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 154 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807761571 0807761575 9780807761823 0807761826 |