Arts Integration in Diverse K–5 Classrooms
Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Teachers' College Press
Published:12th Jul '19
Should be back in stock very soon
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, Brouillette 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.
Book Features:
- Research results that support integration of specific, standards-based arts activities when learning certain literacy skills.
- Strategies that introduce students to a high-quality arts curriculum while enhancing their language arts, social studies, and science skills.
- Sample lesson plans, classroom videos, and arts activities that correspond to book chapters are available online at http://sites.uci.edu/educ104donline/. Arts activities are matched with children's developmental level to maximize learning. <
“It is obvious that this book will be of great use to the classroom teacher looking to expand student success through the application of theoretically sound and practically successful arts integration strategies. It is also an important contribution to the general field of the arts in education.”
—Journal for Learning through the Arts, UC Irvine
“With a particular focus upon language literacy, the author depicted arts integration strategies found to enhance student performance by offering opportunities for meaning-making (learning to listen, speak, and interact with text) and effective expression (learning to communicate as speakers and writers). A strength of the book is that the author advocates for a co-equal cognitive form of integration where arts learning and language learning are equally emphasized within learning contexts. This emphasis is important because arts educators are understandably critical of approaches that place the arts in a subservient role, or of situations where the arts subjects are replaced by arts integration altogether. A strong arts curriculum is necessary to ensure that students develop high skill levels in each of the arts, a key to effective integration.”
—Teachers College Record
“Overall, Arts Integration in Diverse K–5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding offers in- and pre-service teachers a rich platter of texts, activities, and lesson plans that integrate arts in literacy instruction.”
—Journal of Language and Literacy Education
ISBN: 9780807761571
Dimensions: 229mm x 156mm x 8mm
Weight: 227g
160 pages