Classroom teachers are facing increasing responsibility to integrate the arts during literacy instruction. In order to address the arts effectively, teachers require understandings, confidence, and competence with visual arts, music, dance, and theater. Therefore, educator preparation programs must develop the knowledge and skills of preservice teachers about the arts through their curriculum and programs. With the current definition of literacy in mind, the purpose of this article is to highlight three promising practices that educator preparation programs may implement to facilitate the development of requisite knowledge and skills of pre-service teachers for pedagogically sound arts-integrated literacy instruction.