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Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts Classroom

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

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Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts Classroom

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  1. Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts Classroom Kelli M. Miller CIED 5523 Oklahoma State University

  2. What are the fine arts? • Drawing • Sculpting • Theatre • Music • Dance • Painting • Photography

  3. Why Integrate the Fine Arts? • Access all learners • Engage students • Enables higher order thinking skills • Builds students’ schema • Students construct meaning (constructivist theory) • Requires team work, thus building community

  4. (adapted from a lesson by Julie Enlow and Vanessa Wallace, Graduate Students, Oklahoma State University). Example Lesson • Read 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.

  5. References • Albers, 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.

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