Hi! I'm Jayne and you could say I'm a bit of a "drama queen." When my friend Jennifer asked me to be a guest blogger, I knew right away what I wanted to share with all the fun teachers out there in blogging land—Arts Integration! When I got my master's degree in arts integration I was teaching second grade and busy, busy learning about comprehension strategies. So I decided to put two things I love together...the arts and reading. Here's a little explanation...
There are six reading comprehension strategies, right?
Making connections, visualizing, inferring, asking questions,
determining importance, and synthesizing.
There are also six arts modalities. They are visual art, music,
creative movement, poetry, storytelling, drama.
Why put the two together? The arts enhance the process of
learning. The arts develop creative and critical thinking skills.
The arts involve the multiple intelligences—linguistic, spatial,
kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, musical, interpersonal,
intrapersonal, and naturalist. The arts help you reach
children with special needs. The arts are FUN!
Want to learn more? Here are some great sites and blogs
that I recommend. Just click to explore.
I also hope you'll stop by my blog. You'll find ideas for using
children's books to teach the comprehension strategies.
Each idea gives the focus reading strategy and the
integrated art modality.
Hope you enjoyed chatting with Jayne....leave some comments below and feel free to engage in some chit chat!!!
