Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies

Lesson Plans for Teachers

Jennifer Klein and Elizabeth Stuart Whitehead

Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies: Lesson Plans for Teachers will provide both classroom and art teachers with an overview of six different reading strategies and integrated reading and art lessons that they can implement in their own classrooms and schools. Addressing specific National Visual Art Standards, Common Core Standards for Reading, and National Reading Standards, this book is designed so that classroom and art teachers work either in collaboration in schools where there are visual arts teachers, or independently if school staff does not include a visual arts instructor. This teacher friendly, easy-to-use book offers background information on the strategies and lessons that allow teachers to copy student materials and begin implementing this approach in their classrooms right away. Art can be a critical tool in helping students’ develop and refine reading strategies. When reading strategies are presented in the context of art first, the students are better able to incorporate these tools into their reading. Stuart and Klein prove that art provides the scaffolding children need to move from a text-free environment to a text environment.

R&L Education

Pages: 124 • Trim: 7 x 10

978-1-4758-0153-8 • Paperback • December 2012 • $36.00 • (£28.00)

978-1-4758-0154-5 • eBook • December 2012 • $34.00 • (£26.00)

Subjects: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities

Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies

Lesson Plans for Teachers

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Summary

Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies: Lesson Plans for Teachers will provide both classroom and art teachers with an overview of six different reading strategies and integrated reading and art lessons that they can implement in their own classrooms and schools. Addressing specific National Visual Art Standards, Common Core Standards for Reading, and National Reading Standards, this book is designed so that classroom and art teachers work either in collaboration in schools where there are visual arts teachers, or independently if school staff does not include a visual arts instructor. This teacher friendly, easy-to-use book offers background information on the strategies and lessons that allow teachers to copy student materials and begin implementing this approach in their classrooms right away. Art can be a critical tool in helping students’ develop and refine reading strategies. When reading strategies are presented in the context of art first, the students are better able to incorporate these tools into their reading. Stuart and Klein prove that art provides the scaffolding children need to move from a text-free environment to a text environment.

Details

R&L Education

Pages: 124 • Trim: 7 x 10

978-1-4758-0153-8 • Paperback • December 2012 • $36.00 • (£28.00)

978-1-4758-0154-5 • eBook • December 2012 • $34.00 • (£26.00)

Subjects: Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities

Author

Jennifer Klein has worked as an elementary classroom teacher, gifted and talented teacher, and staff development teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Rockville, MD. She is currently a reading specialist for MCPS. Over the past several years, she has brought her love of literacy and art together to create after-school and summer workshops for children, including the Artist/Readers’ Workshop and the Artist/Writers’ Workshop.

Elizabeth (Lisa) Stuart taught elementary art for nine years and has been the content specialist for art, theatre, and dance for Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, MD for the past five years. She loves finding ways for children to use art to deepen their understanding of other subjects and believes that all children can access the same level of understanding indifferent ways. Lisa lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband, Dan, a metal sculptor, and her two children, Caitlin, and Colin.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Making Connections: Connecting the Known to the Unknown
Introduction
Teaching the Making Connections Strategy through Art
Teaching the Making Connections Strategy through Reading/Language Arts
Resources
Literacy Benefits
Reflection
Templates/Worksheets

Chapter 2 Questioning: Generating Wonders
Introduction
Teaching the Questioning Strategy through Art
Teaching the Questioning Strategy through Reading/Language Arts
Resources
Literacy Benefits
Reflection
Templates/Worksheets

Chapter 3 Visualizing: Visualizing: Creating Pictures in Your Mind
Introduction
Teaching the Visualizing Strategy through Art
Teaching the Visualizing Strategy through Reading/Language Arts
Resources
Literacy Benefits
Reflection
Templates/Worksheets

Chapter 4 Inferring: Reading between the Lines
Introduction
Teaching the Inferring Strategy through Art
Teaching the Inferring Strategy through Reading/Language Arts
Resources
Literacy Benefits
Reflection
Templates/Worksheets

Chapter 5 Determining Importance: Selecting the Important Parts
Introduction
Teaching the Determining Importance Strategy through Art
Teaching the Determining Importance Strategy through Reading/Language Arts
Resources
Literacy Benefits
Reflection
Templates/Worksheets

Chapter 6 Synthesizing: Creating Meaning
Introduction
Teaching the Synthesis Strategy in Art and Reading/Language Arts
Resources
Literacy Benefits
Reflection
Templates/Worksheets

Bibliography/Resources

About the Authors

Reviews

Using Art to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies is such a great resource that makes a natural connection between visual art and reading skills. Each lesson is field tested and very relevant to teachers of a variety of age groups in both visual art and reading. The potential for the suggested lessons is great as they are flexible enough to incorporate any text or artwork and could provide a compliment to just about any concept being taught. This is a must have for any teacher looking to improve students' comprehension skills!

— Kim Haden, instructional specialist, elementary integrated curriculum, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland

This is an excellent guide for both new and experienced teachers. Art and classroom teachers will find the book invaluable. It offers practical advice and well developed lessons for integrating art with reading strategies.
Educators will appreciate the list of literary and visual references.In addition, the charts and graphic organizers are easily accessible. This is a perfect book for hands on teaching and a desktop library.

— Christine Karmosky, art teacher, Cape St. Claire Elementary School, Annapolis, MD

Teaching Comprehension Strategies through Visual Art: Lesson Plans for Teachers is a valuable resource for all elementary classroom teachers and all elementary art teachers looking for an integrated approach to teaching language arts and reading and the visual arts.

Written by experienced educators, Jenny Klein and Lisa Stuart have included a variety of easy to use lesson plans that represent a skillful blending of standards-based content from both the visual arts and language arts that enables students to understand and utilize both text and visual information in developing successful reading strategies.

In a time when the emphasis on reading and language arts is paramount in the field of education, Klein and Stuart have provided an invaluable approach to integrating standards-based content from language arts and visual arts into a series of well-integrated lesson plans for elementary educators that will enable students to learn the content of language arts and the visual arts while developing reading skills in all students.

— F. Robert Sabol