Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts Classroom

Integrating the Arts into the Language Arts

ClassroomKelli M. Miller

CIED 5523Oklahoma State University

What are the fine arts?DrawingSculptingTheatreMusicDancePaintingPhotography

Why Integrate the Fine Arts?Access all learnersEngage studentsEnables higher order thinking skillsBuilds students’ schemaStudents construct meaning (constructivist

theory)Requires team work, thus building

community

Example LessonRead Aloud the text What Do You Do with a

Tail Like This? By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

Discuss the text with students. Pointing out how it’s a non-fiction text, but its interesting.

Show students your example of using art to create a body part (nose, ear, tail, tongue) and then how you wrote either a paragraph or a poem to answer the question: What do you do with a _________ like this?

Example of finished product is on next slide.

(adapted from a lesson by Julie Enlow and Vanessa Wallace, Graduate Students, Oklahoma State University).

ReferencesAlbers, P., & Sanders, J. (Eds.). (2010).

Literacies, the Arts & Multimodality: National Council of Teachers of English.

Enlow, Julie and Wallace, Vanessa; (2010).Graduate Students, Oklahoma State University.