If You Can't Sing . . . As schools focus on improving student performance in the classroom, teachers need to integrate the Arts into everyday curriculum. When regularly included in classroom activities, the Arts enhance student achievement and ultimately raise test scores. The purpose of this presentation is to promote teacher awareness of the connection between the Arts and standard classroom curriculum and to show teachers how to integrate Arts through a variety of activities. The participants will engage in role playing, observation, and writing in character.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students demonstrate competence in speaking and listening as tools for learning and communicating. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate skills for teaching story writing to primary and middle school students. If students can learn to write short stories, they will develop the skills needed to comprehend narratives that they encounter in textbooks and other reading materials and will experience progress toward literacy. The participants of the workshop will practice descriptive writing, observe effective story-writing instruction, make a model of a story board, discuss how screenwriters develop scripts, observe the components of the writing process in student writing, and cooperatively write a short narrative knowing only one element of a story board. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.