Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts Classroom
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Arts into the Language Arts Classroom Kelli M. Miller CIED 5523 Oklahoma State University
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Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts Classroom. Kelli M. Miller CIED 5523 Oklahoma State University. What are the fine arts?. Drawing Sculpting Theatre Music Dance Painting Photography. Why Integrate the Fine Arts?. Access all learners Engage students - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts
ClassroomKelli M. Miller
CIED 5523Oklahoma State University
What are the fine arts?DrawingSculptingTheatreMusicDancePaintingPhotography
Why Integrate the Fine Arts?Access all learnersEngage studentsEnables higher order thinking skillsBuilds students’ schemaStudents construct meaning (constructivist
theory)Requires team work, thus building
community
Example LessonRead Aloud the text What Do You Do with a
Tail Like This? By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Discuss the text with students. Pointing out how it’s a non-fiction text, but its interesting.
Show students your example of using art to create a body part (nose, ear, tail, tongue) and then how you wrote either a paragraph or a poem to answer the question: What do you do with a _________ like this?
Example of finished product is on next slide.
(adapted from a lesson by Julie Enlow and Vanessa Wallace, Graduate Students, Oklahoma State University).
ReferencesAlbers, P., & Sanders, J. (Eds.). (2010).
Literacies, the Arts & Multimodality: National Council of Teachers of English.
Enlow, Julie and Wallace, Vanessa; (2010).Graduate Students, Oklahoma State University.
