Resources for Teacher Workshops
The spring 2011 CARE professional development workshop on integrating art & literacy were a success! We worked with 32 teachers and 4 pre-service teachers from throughout the county over two Saturday workshops.
We are posting the resources and handouts from the workshops for everyone to access here. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Julie Lawrence, CARE Manager, by phone at 619-238-7559 ext. 221 or by email at lawrence@mopa.org
Resources
- Literacy in the Arts
In this article, Peggy Albers (2001) explains the role semiotics plays in constructing meaning through language and art.
- Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Ruth Helen Yopp & Hallie Kay Yopp (2007) explain a strategy for visually representing the main ideas/words of a text.
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Introduction to Visual Literacy "I see what you mean."
This power point presentation by Marva Cappello and Julie Kendig-Lawrence was the opening plenary session for the workshops. The slides include information and exercises to illuminate the organizing theories behind integrating art & literacy. The presentation covers information on visual literacy, semiotics and transmediation.
- Literacy Inquiry and Pedagogy through a Photographic Lens
Description
- Common Clues Strategy
Common Clues is a visually-based strategy designed by Marva Cappello, that can be used with students in prepare for reading expository text.
- The Application of Question-Answer Relationship Strategies to Pictures
Adding pictures to the question-answer-relationship teaching strategy increases students' abilities to detect cause and effect and predict outcomes, argues Emma Cortese (2003).
- Purpose and Meaning of the Picture-Question-Answer Relationship (P-QAR) Types
A worksheet to accompnay the Cortese (2003) PQAR strategy
- Finding Space and Time for the Visual in K-12 Literacy Instruction
Dawnene Hassett & Melissa Sheible (2007) help us understanding the ways in which text and images work together to enhance comprehension.
- La Jolla Playhouse Lesson Plan: Sentence Sandwich
Take your grades 3-5 students on a creative classroom drama where they shop for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs from a baker, a gardner, and a butcher in order to make a sentence sandwich!
- La Jolla Playhouse Lesson Plan: Building Character
Use these simple yet effective exercises to build language skills in grades 6-8 classrooms.
- Museum of Photographic Arts Lesson Plan: My Typical Day, Grades 3-5
Through photography and writing students in grades 3-5 come to appreciate the beauty in the everyday.
- Museum of Photographic Arts Lesson Plan: Duane Michals and Point of View, Grades 6-8
Description
- Timken Museum of Art Lesson Plan, Grades 3-5
Students imagine themselves in Eastman Johnson's depiction of cranberry fields from 1880 and write a narrative from the point of view of the characters in the painting.
- Timken Museum of Art Lesson Plan, Grades 6-8
Take your students on an imaginary sensory journey by looking deeply at the painting then write a dialogue among the figures.
Photos of Workshop Participants
Grades 3-5 teachers make a car with their bodies. They are headed to the grocery store to buy some nouns and verbs!
Lincoln High School arts integration specialist, Gina Jackson, enjoys a session led by La Jolla Playhouse.
Kerry Craig and Kathleen Burge from Rincon Middle School respond to the following thought, "Literacy thinking and writing is enhanced when students engage in experiences that encourage them to translate meaning across sign systems," (Cappello & Hollingsworth, 2008).
Participants enjoyed the plenary session in the board room of the Museum of Photographic Arts.
