JENNIFER KLEIN and ELIZABETH STUART

 

Art teachers and classroom teachers alike benefit from this easy-to-use collaborative resource. Inspired by the benefits of infusing art into reading and vice versa, the authors draw upon their elementary education experience to help teachers create lessons that teach comprehension strategies, meet Core Standards, and help students gain skills to use outside the classroom. This teacher-friendly, integrated approach to teaching reading/language arts and the visual arts can provide the framework for students to move easily from a text-free environment to a text environment.

 

Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies presents six strategies for using art to teach reading comprehension: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance, and Synthesizing. Chapters begin with an overview of the strategy, followed by lesson plans which include the Core Standards that will be met, and the literacy benefits of the lessons. Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield.

 

112 pgs. (2013) ISBN 978-1-47580-153-8

 

“A valuable resource for all elementary classroom teachers looking for AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO TEACHING READING/LANGUAGE ARTS in the visual arts.”
—F. Robert Sabol, Professor of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University