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The Power of the Arts: Creative Strategies for Teaching Exceptional Learners
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The Word in Play
Language, Music, and Movement in the Classroom, Second Edition
By Susan A. Katz & Judith A. Thomas
| "Creative lessons, joyfully presented, resonate with open-ended and pragmatic possibilities... The authors provide a unique and glorious view of the creative classroom — from poetry to music to movement — through everyday lessons and topics. Judith A. Thomas and Susan A. Katz truly understand the need for creating a seamless fabric of learning.” —Judith Johnson, Superintendent of Schools, Peekskill City School District
"Beginning from the premise that children are bursting with vibrant images, extraordinary ideas and passionate feelings yearning to be expressed, this book gives detailed and practical guidance as to how to release and guide their creative impulses, along with many marvelous examples from the children themselves.” —Doug Goodkin, Author, Adjunct Professor and founder of the Orff Certification Program, Mills College, Oakland, CA
"There are riches here for everyone who cares about the art of poetry, music and movement, and who wants to explore the pleasure and the challenge of seriously playing with language.” —Colette Inez, Associate Professor, Columbia University Undergraduate Writing Program
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Creative classrooms can become a reality in today's schools, and this practical guide puts that goal within reach. Elementary school educators will reenergize their classrooms with this expanded second edition (originally titled Teaching Creatively by Working the Word: Language, Music, and Movement), which offers exciting, activity-based lessons for teaching language arts through poetry, music, and movement. Teachers will find
- Scripted lessons on introducing language skills through different types of poems. Educators will learn how to teach concepts such as alliteration, and metaphor; encourage creativity as students gather ideas and write their own poems; and guide students in expressing what they've written through movement and music.
- Unscripted, step-by-step sample lessons that build on concepts from the scripted lessons. Field-tested with students for more than 27 years, these detailed lessons show teachers how to reinforce language concepts and incorporate music and movement across the curriculum during science lessons, current events discussions, and more.
- New section! Poetry and music workshops for teachers. Through examples of workshops the authors conducted with in-service and preservice educators across the country and in Canada, readers will see how teachers honed and practiced their own creativity as they became students themselves and deepened their understanding of the creative and emotional challenges their students would be facing.
Enhanced with teaching tips, troubleshooting insights, student and teacher poems, music and movement possibilities, a new glossary, and compelling sample lessons, this lively, informative text will inspire teachers to use creative techniques in the classroom — making it a place where students explore, practice, and play with language throughout the school day.
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ORDERING INFO
ISBN 1-55766-616-4
Paperback
416 pages / 7 x 10
2003 / $39.95
Stock# 6164
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Table of Contents
About the Authors
Foreward
Dorothy G. and Jerome L. Singer
Preface
Acknowledgments
I: Introduction to Playing with Words
- The Color Poem
- The Feeling Poem
- Metaphor, Simile, and Use of Adjectives: The Daydream/Wish/Fantasy Poem
- Poetic Form and Revision Techniques: The When-I-Fall-Asleep Poem
- Personalizing the Poem: The How-I-See-Myself/How-Others-See-Me Poem
- Troubleshooting and Teacher-Student Dynamics
II. Implementation and Extentions
- Field Trip Experience
- Science Lesson
- Endangered Species Lesson
- Nature and Seasonal Lesson
- Current Events Lesson
- Environment Lesson
III. Teachers as Participants (TAPS)
- Exploring Water Worlds: Without, Within, With Wonder
- Seeding the Garden of Language: From the Word to the Narrative to the Poem and Beyond
- Mozart in Motion: Integrating “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” Into the Curriculum
- The Circle of My World: Personalizing Commitment to the Poem and Beyond
- REACT: Reaching Emotion through Arts-based Creative Teaching
Appendix A: Lessons
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Additional Resources
Index
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