About this Course

Overview:

This hands-on 9-hour workshop is specifically designed to support teachers of young children (aged 4-6 years) to use visual arts in developing literacy. Through the visual artistic activities of drawing, painting and cutting, children engage in the process of healthy development, including foundations for literacy. The children learn, through artistic experience, about self expression,

eye-hand coordination and concentration. As their skill increases they are empowered to begin lifelong habits of self-expression and creative activity.

Objectives:

 Review building blocks of early literacy and relate beginning visual arts skills to early literacy skills.

 Relate the image quality of language to the act of making images themselves.

 Investigate effective teaching techniques for painting and drawing that are developmentally appropriate for kindergarten aged children.

 Develop a repertoire of cutting activities that reinforce eye hand coordination and development of concentration.

 Experience the proper handling and use of tools and supplies for painting, drawing and artistic cutting.

 Learn how to provide an appropriate environment for the development of children’s personal creative expression.

 Develop and implement a lesson plan teaching a literary skill through the visual arts.

Session 1: Exploring color and shape as a support for literacy skills

Theoretical Framework for supporting literacy through the visual arts:

Visual arts and brain development

Literacy development comes alive through visual arts using:

 Image in relationship to sounds and shapes of letters,

 Practice of eye-hand coordination,

 Encouragement of precision,

 Development of personal “voice” through choice of color and composition,

 Development of concentration and quiet

 Engaged listening.

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