Literacy and the Arts

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"Art: The 4th 'R'"
Jason Ohler Instructor
January/February 2001 http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/
teachtech/art_the4thr.htm

In this article, Jason Ohler forwards the importance of artistic literacy.  

"Encouraging Creativity in Early Childhood Classrooms"
Carolyn Pope Edwards and Kay Wright Springate
ERIC Digest: ED389474, December 1995 http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed389474.html

This digest reports on the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education, which considers the arts to be one of the "hundred languages of children."   

"Creating Drama with Poetry: Teaching English as a Second Language Through Dramatization and Improvisation"
Marie Gasparro and Bernadette Falletta
ERIC Digest: ED368214, 1994
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed368214.html

This digest explains how second-language learners better learn English when language is made real through the dramatic arts.

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