Integrating Expressive Arts Fosters Emergent Literacy

1. Integrating Expressive Arts Fosters Emergent Literacy BY Byul Hee Kim

2. Introduction • Today, reading and writing is even more critical. • Society continues to increase its demands and expectations higher and higher.

3. Benefit of The Arts • The arts provide important content for literacy. • It also serves as a vehicle for developmental learning for children of all ages and abilities.

4. A rich Expressive Environment • Expressive Environment helps literacy skills improve. • Reading and reenacting stories and poems, singing songs, listening to music, creating and looking at artworks displayed, and labeling objects in the classroom.

5. Expressive Knowledge • Children communicate ideas and feelings through drawings, words, gestures, body movements, and music. • An expressive art help the children to gain new words to express • Ex) Responding to music, drawing Lines, and then moving body,

6. Quality Children’s Literature • Good literature can provide additional motivation to become literate and a reason to communicate visually. • The expressive arts provide opportunities to reenact favorite books or stories internalizing and interpreting actions of characters in a story.

7. Children Develop Skills • Creativity, emergent literacy, problem solving, predicting, and sequencing are just a few of the skills developed when children reenact a story, create a graphic image or compose a song with creative movements.

8. Summery • The expressive arts offer all young children important vehicles for learning: creating symbols, expressing feelings, and communicating ideas. • The expressive arts fosters learning across many domains, including emergent literacy. Images, sound, and movement.