Strategies for Teaching Literacy with Art
Picture Writing: Fostering Literacy through Art, children are encouraged to create pictures that tell a story. From this children are able to move back and forth between image and their words – as they learn to “read their pictures” and discuss key elements to their stories.
Image-Making within the Writing Process: Children construct collages to illustrate a story, then they rehearse their stories, write them and “read their collages”.
Because your blog is based on your presentation in class I have a better understanding. I think the use of art in any and all classrooms is great I think a picture can sometimes represent more than words. I remember only a few years ago when I took art in high school and I created a college that was based on my mom and me and our relationship. I recreated a picture of us and then put it in the middle. She cryed and that was the first time I heard anyone say that this is worth more than a million words. This is when I relized how powful art really is especially when it brings tears to someones eyes.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful story! It really reiterates the point. I wish we could convince folks to all think that way. Not only that a picture is a way to communicate but that it is just as valuable as a page full of words!
I can completely relate! After the wedding, I was sad to know that all of my planning was over in one day, and that I'll never have that experience again in my life. All I have to relive that day is pictures. And those pictures mean more to me than any words ever could! The pictures will tell the story and communicate things that written words or even spoken words ever could. -Just an example of how being literate is more than reading and writing!
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