Multiple Forms of Literacy: Teaching Literacy and the Arts

Multiple Forms of Literacy: Teaching Literacy and the Arts, 1/e

Carolyn L. Piazza, Florida State University

Published November, 1998 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

This book, appropriate for elementary methods courses in Arts and Language Arts, extends traditional language arts content by offering multiple communicative channels for expressing, representing, and responding to ideas. It equips teachers with ways to maximize children's creative potential and critical literacy through activities involving “the arts” (visual arts, music, dance, drama and film including video, TV and computer technology). The author provides thorough coverage of literacy products, process strategies, procedures, and resources not typically found in language arts texts. All of the literacy tasks presented, which fit into Howard Gardner's framework of multiple intelligences, recognize children's different abilities, talents, needs, learning styles, interests, and cultural background.

Features

Prepares future and current language arts teachers to meet the new standards from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA).
Uses a product-process approach to expand the products and performances typically conducted in schools.
Includes activities that are appropriate for children at primary and intermediate levels.
Provides a wide array of tools for expressing ideas and employs these tools to enhance the traditional language arts of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Opens each chapter with a vignette that introduces model lessons which build on literacy and one of the arts; each vignette is followed by five major strands (Inquiry, Languaging, Poetry, Story, and Information) which organize multiple literacy tasks.
Closes each chapter with activities for professional development which offer first-hand practice with multiple forms of literacy and additional multi-media resources (videos, CDs artwork, games, and software programs).
Includes various forms of literacy conducted for and within the arts (songwriting, reader's theater, reading art).
Offers sample thematic units to show how multiple literacies can be used in the content areas.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Literacies.
2. Art Literacy: Visualizing Language.
3. Music Literacy: Listening to Language.
4. Dance Literacy: Communicating Nonverbally.
5. Theater Literacy: Performing Language.
6. Film Literacy: Imaging Language.
Appendix A: Multiple Intelligences.
Appendix B: National Standards for Literacy and the Arts.
Index.