Using Art to Teach Writing Traits

Elizabeth Stuart Whitehead taught elementary art for nine years and was the content specialist for art, theatre, and dance for Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Maryland, for seven years. Currently, she is Visual Art Supervisor for Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland. Prince George’s County is a pioneer in Arts Integration (AI) with 75+ model schools and growing.Jennifer Klein is currently a reading specialist for Montgomery County Public Schools. Over the course of her career, she has worked as an elementary classroom teacher, gifted and talented teacher, staff developer, and teacher trainer for MCPS. Over the past several years, she has merged these passions to create after-school and summer workshops for children including the Artist/Readers’ Workshop and the Artist/Writers’ Workshop, and has also taught at the Rehoboth Art league in Rehoboth, Delaware.

• DedicationPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Ideas- Ideas Are All Around You!Chapter Two: Organization- Putting the Pieces TogetherChapter Three: Word Choice- Artful LanguageChapter Four: Voice- Drawing Your Audience InChapter Five: Sentence Fluency- Mix it UpChapter Six: Conventions- Polishing Your WorkChapter Seven: Presenting and Publishing: Sharing Your Work with OthersBibliography? Children’s Books? Professional Education Books? Art References? WebsitesAbout the Authors

Using Art to Teach Writing comprehensively and creatively addresses the teaching of writing to developing and struggling young writers. This well-resourced book encourages the use of a multiplicity of modalities through art. It recognizes the power of art as a language that can be harnessed to develop skills in writing. We create “images” prior to learning to create text, so to me, this is perceptive and intelligent thinking.