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New book from School of Education professor explores ways to integrate arts into diverse K-5 curricula

10/18/2019

 
​Drawing upon her extensive background in teaching and her devotion to the importance of the arts in education, UCI School of Education Professor Liane Brouillette authored a new book that offers strategies to introduce K-5 students to a high-quality arts curriculum that enhances their language arts, social studies, and science skills.

The book, Arts Integration in Diverse K-5 Classrooms: Cultivating Literacy Skills and Conceptual Understanding, provides strategies and research that supports the integration of specific, standards-based arts activities when learning certain literacy skills. Sample lesson plans and classroom videos (available online)  correspond to book chapters.

"In our media-saturated culture, children are bombarded with sounds and images, which are quickly forgotten," Brouillette said. "This habit of superficial processing can easily carry over into the classroom. However, integrating visual art, music, drama or dance into the exploration of academic content enables students to create vivid representations of key concepts, supporting recall."
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Brouillette's research interests focus on learning through the arts and education policy. Her research on arts integration in diverse classroom; the impact of No Child Left Behind on elementary arts instruction; and the arts, Common Core, and English language development have been featured in Teachers College Press, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, and Teachers College Record. She is director of the UCI Center for Learning Through the Arts, which publishes quarterly the Journal for Learning Through the Arts. Brouillette was project lead on K-2 Teaching Artists, a collaboration between the San Diego Unified School District and the University of California, Irvine (made possible by a USDE Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grant).

​The book is now available from Teachers College Press.

From the Publisher:
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This practical resource emphasizes the special contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, this book helps K–5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population but does not ignore other important aspects of healthy human development. Without detracting from the rigor of a demanding curriculum, Brouillette demonstrates how arts integration allows students to engage with concepts on their own developmental level. Each chapter focuses on a skill set that is fundamental to literacy development, suggests age-appropriate arts integration activities that will build that skill, and offers guidance for fostering a sense of community.
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​Chapters
  1. Deepening Understanding Through Arts Integration 
  2. Making Meaning Through Verbal Interaction : Laying the Foundation for Literacy 
  3. Making Meaning of Narrative Text 
  4. Making Meaning from Informational Texts 
  5. Building Effective Oral Communication Skills
  6. Expression Through Narrative Writing
  7. Expression Through Informational and Persuasive Writing
  8. Building Executive Function Skills with Arts Activities
  9. Bringing the Arts Back to the Language Arts

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