A Reason to Read: Linking Literacy and the Arts
This is both a profound and wonderfully practical book. In clear and helpful chapters, the authors show how teachers can use multiple art forms to help students probe and comprehend classic literary texts and create personally meaningful works of their own. The For the Classroom sections at the end of each chapter are superb. --Richard J. Deasy, former director, Arts Education PartnershipThis shining book reminds us that the reason to read truly, the desire to learn anything well springs from the same ineffable emotions summoned by the arts. Those who seek the key to academic motivation and mastery can do no better than to study the secrets Landay and Wootton unlock here with simplicity, practicality, and wisdom. --Kathleen Cushman, author, Fires in the MindFor over a decade, Landay, Wootton, and their many colleagues at the ArtsLiteracy Project have been exploring the rich possibilities at the intersection of arts and literacy development for deep learning and teaching. It has been visionary work, and this book provides vivid pictures of how to bring those possibilities into any classroom. --Steve Seidel, faculty director, Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education