Article Stories Brought to Life
Learn about ways to increase student participation and skill building during interactive read-alouds.
In this K-2 lesson, students will create a story page about animal habitats using a non-traditional book illustration method. They will be introduced to animal habitats through story, song, and dramatic play using children’s picture books.
Students will:
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Students should be able to count from 1 to 10 and be familiar with basic phonics and rhyme.
Modify movements and allow extra time as needed.
Original Writer
Diane Ambur
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Carol Parenzan Smalley
Editor
JoDee Scissors
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December 18, 2023
Learn about ways to increase student participation and skill building during interactive read-alouds.
Lesson plans, activities, and other resources that focus on telling stories through theater, music, dance, writing, and visual arts.
How theater and visual arts can help to engage your students to read.
The skills our students need can be readily integrated into arts lessons and vice versa.
Is there poetry in the ocean? How can the wind inspire dance? How can the arts represent the change of seasons? Discover patterns and cycles in nature with these resources that address cell composition and reproduction, animal habitats, the metamorphasis of a caterpillar to a butterfly, and an artistic representation of our relationship with the planet.
Middle school math teachers will unlock students’ “artistic mathematical eye” with arts objectives, lesson openings, essential questions, and student choice.
In this K-2 lesson, students will create their own adjective monsters using paper sculpture techniques. They will explore the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions.
In this K-2 lesson, students will construct patterns using visual arts designs and math manipulatives. They will identify patterns existing in the natural and man-made world, art, math, and science.
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