Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies: Lesson Plans for Teachers - Softcover

Klein, Jennifer; Whitehead, Elizabeth Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147580153X ISBN 13: 9781475801538

Publisher: R&L Education, 2012

Synopsis

Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies: Lesson Plans for Teachers will provide both classroom and art teachers with an overview of six different reading strategies and integrated reading and art lessons that they can implement in their own classrooms and schools. Addressing specific National Visual Art Standards, Common Core Standards for Reading, and National Reading Standards, this book is designed so that classroom and art teachers work either in collaboration in schools where there are visual arts teachers, or independently if school staff does not include a visual arts instructor. This teacher friendly, easy-to-use book offers background information on the strategies and lessons that allow teachers to copy student materials and begin implementing this approach in their classrooms right away. Art can be a critical tool in helping students’ develop and refine reading strategies. When reading strategies are presented in the context of art first, the students are better able to incorporate these tools into their reading. Stuart and Klein prove that art provides the scaffolding children need to move from a text-free environment to a text environment.

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Klein has worked as an elementary classroom teacher, gifted and talented teacher, and staff development teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Rockville, MD. She is currently a reading specialist for MCPS. Over the past several years, she has brought her love of literacy and art together to create after-school and summer workshops for children, including the Artist/Readers’ Workshop and the Artist/Writers’ Workshop.


Elizabeth (Lisa) Stuart taught elementary art for nine years and has been the content specialist for art, theatre, and dance for Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, MD for the past five years. She loves finding ways for children to use art to deepen their understanding of other subjects and believes that all children can access the same level of understanding indifferent ways. Lisa lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband, Dan, a metal sculptor, and her two children, Caitlin, and Colin.

Edition details

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147580153X
• ISBN 13: 9781475801538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124