Powerpoint on the benefits of teaching the arts and literacy together, how they combine for a better education

1. Art and Literacy:
“Bringing Words and Pictures Together”
By Megan Germ, Megan Roney,
Brittany Meshberg, and Heather Schmitt

2. “Description is in effect word
painting…”
Rebecca McClanahan
 Pictures can serve the
function of telling or
speaking
 Words can serve the
function of creating a
picture

4. Picture Citation:
Vincent Van Gogh, Café Terrace at Night
(1888)

5. Equal Languages
Story Time-What’s the Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtHFZYx-vvM

6. Reading/ Writing
and Pictures as Two
Complementary Languages…
 Right side of the brain:
“holistic, intuitive,
virtually untapped” (pg.
21)
 Left Side of the brain:
“logical, analytical,
verbal thinking” (pg. 21)
 Most classrooms today
are still consumed by the
left side of the brain
activities

7. Pictures as a Universal
Language…
 Do not need any
translation-different
cultures can look at the
same picture and still
gather meaning
 Helps to build classroom
community

8. Brain-Based Learning
 Theory that students
need to be interested
to be engaged
 Engagement increases
motivation, and
therefore learning

9. Vocabulary Terms
 Zone of Proximal Development: a range of skills
that students have that allows them to do certain
activities with guidance
 Self Efficacy: belief in your own capabilities
 Transmediation: creating meaning across various
sign systems

10. Artist’s/Writer’s
Workshop
 4 Steps:
1. Literature share/discussion: pick a piece of quality
literature to share which leads to discussion (i.e.
picture book)
2. Modeling: shows the art or writing process
3. Work Session: independent practice to develop art
or writing
4. Group Share: individuals share and display work
with the class

11. ACTIVITY

12. Take Home Message
 Using both art and
literacy in the classroom
is extremely effective!
 When students can see
themselves both as an
artist and a writer they
can “engage, analyze,
and create” in their work