Before the time of letters, words, and books...
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Before the time of
letters, words, and books...
…there were
the Arts!
Storytelling Painting
Music Dancing
Then came literacy…
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This time with music...
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This time with dance...
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This time with art...
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This time with drama...
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The arts can make strong connections
to... •Phonemic Awareness
•Phonics
•Comprehension
•Vocabulary
•Fluency
We may not remember this...
•The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
We do remember this....
We may not remember this....
We do remember this...
Our strongest connections to these
books....
May not be the words, but
•the artistic formats in which they have been presented.
•Dance
•Music
•Drama
•Art
Every time our brain is engaged with a great piece of
literature and the arts,
Something powerful happens…
•Our emotional connection is stronger
•Our recall is better
•Our learning increases
Knowing this
•I enthusiastically and passionately present
•the theme for the 59th WVRA Conference as…
Reading With The Arts:
Off The Charts
The colors shall be…
The logo…