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Peer reviewedAlbers, Peggy – Primary Voices K-6, 2001
Discusses five guiding principles (from scholars' work in semiotics) for helping teachers explore the arts and literacy instruction, intended as a framework for understanding representation of meaning, in whatever sign system or art form. Discusses why understanding semiotic systems is important to language arts instruction that represents meaning…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Peer reviewedBerghoff, Beth – Primary Voices K-6, 2001
Reflects on three articles in this themed issue written by classroom teachers, describing how and why they incorporate the arts into the heart of their language arts instruction. Concludes that sign systems and the arts are powerful tools for thinking, whether they are used efferently, to represent specific information, or aesthetically, to create…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Dramatics, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
Peer reviewedNoden, Harry, Ed.; Moss, Barbara, Ed. – Reading Teacher, 1995
Argues that the unique interrelationship of art, reading, and writing offers teachers a variety of opportunities to nurture students' artistic imagination. Describes several strategies that can be used to explore images through writing and to explore images through reading. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedMaudlin, Adalia – English in Texas, 1995
Describes a castle-building exercise in which students first learn about castles and then, using a map of the school, show on paper how they would convert the school into a castle. (TB)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMcGuire, Gary N. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reviews theories on cognition and perception as they relate to language and the arts and presents research supporting an arts-centered curriculum as beneficial to language and reading development. (FL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSuranna, Keith J. – Reading Teacher, 2000
Argues that integrating the arts in culture and literacy can help children become proficient users of language and be accepting and empathetic toward others, as advocated in standard nine of the "Standards for the English Language Arts." Describes two ways the author integrated the arts into a language arts unit on Japan, dealing with…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedClay, Marie M. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Argues that for a child to respond to a teacher, whether by reading, talking, writing, constructing a village, or painting a drama backdrop, the child must relate, remember, relearn, monitor, problem-solve, and do all those other mental activities that help humans adapt and create new solutions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
