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| Learning To Read Through the Arts Program. An intensive, individualized reading program for students in grades 2-7 presented through a total arts program. |
Audience Approved by PEP for children grades 2-7, including special education, and bilingual students who are reading at least one year below grade level.
Description At the developer sites, children in grades 2-7 are served, as well as special education and bilingual students. The program is also suitable for grades K-12, and adopters have used the program with those audiences. An overall interdisciplinary holistic approach to improving reading and writing is implemented through the integration of a total arts with a total reading program. Curriculum is developed based on themes. Listening, speaking, writing, and reading techniques are stressed in the reading-oriented art workshops, and a diagnostic/prescriptive approach to reading is employed in the reading workshops. Participating children meet with the artist teacher and classroom/reading teachers in whole class and/or small groups for an average of four hours per week. Students receive additional reading instruction for at least one and a half hours a week in reading-oriented arts workshops in such areas as dance, music, theater, crafts, sculpture, painting, printmaking, and photography. The resources of museums, cultural institutions, universities, resource centers, and libraries are used, and special programs related to the content of project workshops are scheduled for students on field trip/special event days. There is an annual Learning to Read Through the Arts exhibition of work by participating students and/or a Performing Arts and Film Festival. A series of parent workshops is also held. Preservice and inservice trainings are available.
By using the Learning to Read Through the Arts Program's methodology in a school's total educational program, students learn through a holistic, integrated, thematic experiential approach. Students are given the opportunity to apply their individual learning styles in improving their ability to read and write.
Through arts instruction, students inherently use the processes of analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating by becoming involved in concrete hands-on experiences which assist them in the transfer of knowledge to abstract learning.
Evidence of Effectiveness Chapter I students in the Developer/Demonstrator Learning to Read Through the Arts Program have shown an NCE growth in reading from 4.0-9.9.
Requirements Reading teachers/classroom teachers, professional artists, and/or artist teachers are trained in the Learning to Read Through the Arts methodology. Teacher-made pupil-oriented materials, commercial materials, instructional devices, filmstrips, records, tape recordings, media libraries, books on the arts, and art and audio-visual supplies are used. Program hours and times are adaptable to adopters' needs and scheduling requirements.
Services Awareness materials are available at no cost. Visitors are welcomed at a program site by appointment. Program staff are available to attend out-of-state awareness meetings (costs to be negotiated). Training is conducted at the program site (adopter pays only its own costs). Training is also conducted at the adopter site (costs to be negotiated). Implementation and follow-up services are available to adopters (costs to be negotiated). Training materials and curriculum guides cost approximately $85 per teacher. Cost of program implementation depends on available personnel. Cost of art supplies and equipment depends on the reading-oriented workshops that are implemented.
Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title I.
JDRP No. 74-18 (3/25/74)
Recertified (4/1/94)
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[Multicultural Literacy Program (MLP)]