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Arts Integration is an approach to teaching
in which students construct and demonstrate understanding
through an art form.
Students engage in a creative process
which connects an art form and another subject area
and meets evolving objectives in both. (as defined by the Kennedy Center (Sound fun? Click for more info!)
Integrating the ARTS with BOOKS to teach COMPREHENSION Strategies
SING into schema, DANCE into determining importance, ACT OUT inferences, make VISUAL ART with visualizations, turn questions into POETRY, make MUSIC with the meaning of synthesis!
These teaching ideas are teacher-tested with real kids in real classrooms. They are fun, practical, and easy to prepare. You'll find ideas for using children's books to teach the comprehension strategies. Each idea will list the focus reading strategy and the integrated art modality.
What are the six ART MODALITIES?
Visual art, music, creative movement, poetry, storytelling, drama
What are the six COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES?
Making connections, visualizing, inferring, asking questions, determining importance, synthesizing
Why use the arts to teach reading?
The arts enhance the process of learning. The arts develop creative and critical thinking skills. The arts involve the multiple intelligences—linguistic, spatial, kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. The arts help you reach children with special needs. The arts are FUN!
- All the World
- Animal Boogie
- Beautiful Blackbird
- Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum
- Can't Sleep WIthout Sheep
- Cindy Moo
- Dancing Feet
- Farmyard Beat
- Giraffes Can't Dance
- If You're A Monster and You Know It
- Let's Do Nothing!
- Lines that Wiggle
- Little Mama Forgets
- Martin's Big Words
- Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf
- Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes
- Questions, Questions
- Red Sings From Treetops: A Year In Colors
- She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
- Sometimes I Like to Curl up in a Ball
- Tap the Magic Tree
- The Book With A Hole
- The Boy Who Grew Flowers
- The Cheese
- The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County
- The Gruffalo
- The Little Little Girl with the Big Big Voice
- There Was An Old Monster
- When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry
- Yesterday I Had the Blues
- determining importance (1)
- inferring (9)
- making connections (8)
- questioning (6)
- synthesizing (4)
- visualizing (8)
- drama (10)
- movement (11)
- music (9)
- poetry (4)
- storytelling (1)
- visual art (8)
in which students construct and demonstrate understanding
through an art form.
Students engage in a creative process
which connects an art form and another subject area
and meets evolving objectives in both.
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