Notes on Capter 7: Art and Literacy: Reading and Language Arts

Similarities between Language Arts and Visual Arts
  • Both focus on means of expression
  • Both use symbols
  • Both employ similar methods of critical analysis and interpretation

Drawing before writing forces the child to recall and decide on the details that enrich the writing
  • encourage students to draw something that is meaningful to them, on a topic they choose - then ask them to write about it
  • the drawing and the accompanying talk give the naturally curious young child access to other children's minds and feelings

Drawing is critical to the early development of language and narritive
  • Learning to draw requires close observation skills - skills that catalyze thinking skills

THE VOCABULARY OF ART
  • Vocabulary development is a major factor in success in reading
  • The formal elements reflect potential vocabulary for description or representation
  • Have students describe characteristics of lines
  • Have students compare/contrast shapes and forms
  • Art can be used to give visual expression to what adjectives express verbally
  • Making art and talking about what they have made allows children to expand their ability to communicate in alomost endless ways

SPEECH, THOUGHT, AND ART - use art to promote Language Arts goals
  • Illustrate a story - illustrate a character or a scene
  • Keep a journal - for writing and drawing
  • Write a poem or essay about an artwork
  • Talk about a memory
  • Write a story
  • Learn to "read" pictures

Visual Literacy - the ability to analyze and interpret visual images

THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT AND THROUGH ART
  • Speech development and the ability to think critically are fostered by conversations about art
  • Give students a chance to tell you what the see and feel
  • Working in groups facilitates language development

THE ART OF LANGUAGE: COMMONALITIES BETWEEN DESIGN STRUCTURES IN LANGUAGE AND ART
  • Metaphors, representation, variation, symmetry, dominance, and emphasis - design elements that can be used in writing, i.e. figures of speech, alliteration, etc.

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