Why are 'the arts' such a good place to help develop reading comprehension skills?
Many strategies initiated by an arts integrated program help to promote reading comprehension.
Lets take a look at what kind of evidence to look for from children's responses that would indicate that this deeper level of learning is indeed occurring.
Strategies
Develop sensory images:
*make pictures in mind
*use multiple senses
*include an emotional component
*adds detail through imagery
*develops a mental model to organize meaning
Building and Activating Schema
*Makes text-to-self connections
*Makes text-to-text connections
*Makes text-to-world connections
*Uses connections to build meaning
Questioning
*Asks yes or no questions
*Asks higher level questions
*Asks questions to clarify author's intent
*Uses questioning to evolve in his or her thinking
Determining Importance
*Distinguishes between details and essential ideas
*Recognizes important themes
Inferring
*Communicates emotional content of text
*Has insight into the characters and events of story
*Makes predictions passed on inferences of text
*Creates a personal interpretation
*Discovers author's implied messages
Synthesis
*Creates a summary of the text
*Discovers commonalities in texts
*Generates new meaning based on author's ideas and own personal interpretations
Mantione, R. Weaving through words: using the arts to teacher reading comprehension strategies.
2003. International Reading Association. Newark, De.
Teacher's Blog - Our goal is to get you excited about teaching reading through arts integration. We want you thinking smarter, not harder. By teaching reading comprehension through arts integration, you have the opportunity to reach a larger audience of students and allow all of your students to have a much deeper understanding when it comes to reading comprehension. We have also referenced both the California ELA standards as well as the new California Core Standards.
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We sincerely hope that you become as inspired by teaching through the arts as we have. Highlights of our program included doing a solo drama in our class and storytelling. Students really got engaged and their retention of information from these lessons was very high.
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