Summary
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Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Each strategy provides everything a teacher needs to get started: a classroom example that models the strategy, a research-based rationale, relevant content standards, suggested books, reader-response questions and prompts, assessment ideas, examples of how to adapt the strategy for different grade levels (K–2, 3–5, and 6–8), and ideas for differentiating instruction for English language learners and struggling students. Throughout the book, student work samples and classroom vignettes bring the content to life.
Collage
Figure 35.1 Julissa's self-portrait collage and face poem
Rationale
Collage is a mixed media art strategy using paper or other media to compose shapes, colors, and lines, and it is used by many picture book illustrators such as Leo Leonni, Eric Carle, Ezra Jack Keats, Lois Ehlert, and others. Torn paper collage requires only a piece of paper for a background and small pieces of paper attached to it with a glue stick and can be done in classrooms from kindergarten through 8th grade.
Integrating visual arts instruction, such as collage, into literacy instruction has often been suggested as a way to improve student achievement. In a meta-analysis of studies conducted by Burger and Winner (2000), results showed a positive, moderately sized relationship between reading improvement ...
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