Art
Each Read-Aloud unit has several opportunities for students to use artwork to express their ideas and interpretations. In these activities the students are asked to draw scenes or characters that can be envisioned differently.
For example, student drawings of the Ogre from Jack and the Beanstalk might emphasize his monstrous and threatening characteristics or his more human and civilized traits.
All of the art activities in the Read-Aloud program are interpretive -- they require the child to think about the poem or story and formulate a response or opinion.
Because the artwork is done in the student books, each child can make a permanent record of his or her own unique version of the story or poem.
Often a "share and compare" session will accompany the students' artwork. In this session, students see drawings and interpretations by other students and are given an opportunity to explain their own drawings.
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