EDUA 5427 Art-based Strategies for LIteracy
ART-BASED STRATEGIES FOR LITERACY INSTRUCTION
For many schools, reading and literacy skills have become a primary focus—so much so that other subjects like the arts have fallen by the wayside. However, you don’t have to choose one discipline or the other. Give your students the joy of participating in the arts while also enhancing their literacy learning—not detracting from it.
In this course, you’ll discover how to integrate fine arts, music, drama, poetry, and digital design into your literacy lessons while still addressing the Common Core State Standards for English language arts. You will develop strategies for incorporating the arts as part of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and consider how to use technology as a resource for infusing the arts into your curriculum. In addition, you’ll see how this approach can aid in SEL and culturally responsive teaching practices to increase opportunities for inclusion of all students.
Using the novel strategies from his course, you will be able to teach literacy standards while also cultivating a love of the arts in your school.