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Ernst, Karen – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Describes an artists workshop, parallel to a writers workshop, that integrated student choice of topic and media, reading, art, and writing. Outlines the workshop routine, discusses the artists' notebooks kept by the students, and explains how writing as an essential element of the workshop reveals the thinking, planning, and discovering that…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Elementary Education
Ernst, Karen – Teaching PreK-8, 1996
Describes a process called artist's share in which students volunteer to display their artwork, share thoughts and feelings on its progress, and accept comments from other students. Artist's share allows for responsibility to be shared between artist, audience, and teacher; provides a unique learning opportunity for students; and helps the teacher…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Criticism, Art Products, Childrens Art
Ernst, Karen – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Describes an Artists' Workshop that emphasizes the importance and value of connecting art and writing to demonstrate where ideas come from and how they are expressed. Justifies writing as necessary to focus on process and meaning of art and not merely the product. Extends art across the curriculum by encouraging sketch journals in the classroom.…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art Teachers
Manning, Maryann; Manning, Gary – Teaching PreK-8, 1996
Outlines the following three ways teachers can incorporate art, reading, and writing in the classroom: (1) single- and double-entry journals, for writing about art and drawing; (2) sketch-to-sketch, where students illustrate their interpretation of a selected portion of text; and (3) literature and art, using children's literature to inspire…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Art, Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing
Winarski, Diana L. – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Describes activities of kindergarten through grade-four students in an art classroom that emphasizes expression of creative process along with the product. Explores interconnections between art, thinking, and writing as expressed by a former language arts teacher who transfers her knowledge of language, words, and creative expression to art. (BAC)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Class Activities
Mulkey, Mary – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Suggests that asking children to color within the lines does not stifle their creativity but is similar to expecting children to stand in line for the bus or write neatly. Proposes that expecting students to color within the lines is establishing a basis of knowledge and control from which they can eventually explore more creative avenues of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Creative Expression
