Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms - Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding

Focuses on the contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, the author helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population.

About the author

Liane Brouillette is a professor at the School of Education, University of California, Irvine and editor of the Journal for Learning Through the Arts.

Summary

Focuses on the contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, the author helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population.

Product details

• Authors: Liane Brouillette
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780807761823
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6182-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Language and Literacy; Language and Literacy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology