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Art-Based Strategies for Literacy Instruction
Language and Literacy, The Arts | K-12
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.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Develop literacy instruction in your classroom by using arts-based resources and activities
- Plan effective, arts-based lessons aligned to core content or your state’s standards for literacy
- Devise new strategies that include fine arts, music, drama, poetry, and digital design
- Expand creativity in literacy
- Address social–emotional and diversity goals using literacy and arts-based strategies
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Justify the use of arts-based literacy activities as instructional strategies for teaching literacy.
- Develop strategies to address the 21st-century skill of creativity using a combination of literacy and the arts.
- Devise ways to make social–emotional learning (SEL) connections while also teaching literacy and arts.
- Create a lesson using strategies that align with literacy and arts standards while addressing cultural responsiveness.
- Create a presentation or lesson that demonstrates how the use of arts-based literacy and choice enhances students’ enjoyment of literacy.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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