Creating Meaning Through Literature and the Arts: Arts Integration for Classroom Teachers, 5th edition

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• Pearson Video Resources are available to accompany many chapters in this text. Go to the navigation bar in the eText and click on Video Resources for direct links to videos that advance your understanding of some chapter concepts. These videos are not embedded in the eText. 

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Additional text features include:

• A one-of-a-kind, comprehensive treatment of five art forms featured in arts integration–literary arts, visual art, drama, dance, and music–considered the “bible” of arts integration by previous edition users.
• Real life examples show students clearly the what, why, and how of arts integration. Featured are Classroom Snapshots, Clips, and Spotlights that show students how a concert of arts integration strategies can be coordinated to engage learners in creating and expressing meaning using all of the arts, including the English Language Arts.
• The arts integration approach is anchored in updated research results throughout.
• Ready References provide quick access to instructional tools such as how to use Inquiry Questions (IQs), making important material easy to find, and key points and strategies easy to add to an instructional repertoire.
• 10 AI Pillars provide a clear blueprint for planning, assessing, and tailoring an arts integrated approach to the needs of students.
• A teachable, student friendly Creative Inquiry model makes teaching and learning the central processes in creative thinking easier and more thoughtful.
• Bibliographies of arts-based children’s literature and databases give teachers specific examples of books to order and use in AI units and lessons.
• Photographs of real teachers and students embellish descriptions of lessons and student responses.
• Specific examples of how AI goes beyond the expectations outlined in the Common Core State Standards coordinate the motivational and instructional aspects of teaching students how to make sense of diverse and complex texts and then represent their conclusions using multimodal forms.
• An extensive Appendix includes examples of numerous assessment tools and outlines strategies for working with students of all abilities and needs.
• Seed Strategies and an AI Toolbox feature help teachers jump start thinking and planning for integrating the arts into other curricular areas.
• To assist readers, the following tools have been built into the book:
• Table of Figures: Located after the Table of Contents. The title of all chapter Ready Reference and Research Updates are listed, along with numbers (chapter first). Example: Figure 7.6 is found in “chapter 7, and is the 6th figure in the chapter.
• Classroom Clips, Snapshots and Spotlights: These examples are included to make abstract ideas more concrete. Readers can visualize how a menu of real arts-based teaching strategies can be synthesized into a lesson or see how specific schools have transitioned to a custom designed AI approach.
• Bolded Strategies: In most Classroom Snapshots, key teaching strategies are in bold to uplift them for the reader’s consideration as they build a personal instructional AI Toolbox.
• Website Citations. Because of legal issues, full URLs are usually not listed within the body of the text.  To locate websites, either do a search or use the abbreviated information surrounded by parentheses immediately following content to find full citations in the Bibliography, at the end of this book.

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Pearson Video Resources are available to accompany many chapters in this text. Go to the navigation bar in the eText and click on Video Resources for direct links to videos that advance your understanding of some chapter concepts. These videos are not embedded in the eText.

Students can experience the advantages of the Enhanced Pearson eText along with all the benefits of print for 40% to 50% less than a print bound book! Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy.

Key content changes include:

• NEW! A revised AI definition, presented in Chapter 1, now matches the book’s title, Creating Meaning through Literature and the Arts, and anchors the main message of the entire book.
• NEW! Creative Inquiry. A student-friendly model of “creating meaning” is introduced in Part I and discussed in detail in Chapter 2. Strategies for teaching students how to use the 2Is/7Cs are featured in every chapter.
• NEW! Examples of how AI supports the Common Core State Standards are interwoven throughout and AI is presented as an innovative approach to meeting any student expectations governed by 21^st century work, learning, and life demands.
• NEW! Research updates include one to two page figures summarizing arts-based studies and research in newer fields, such as brain research and visual imagery.
• NEW! Ready References figures outline sources and information teachers need to consult frequently as they implement AI. Included are RRs summarizing basic arts literacy (by art form) recommended for classroom teachers, as well as guidelines for using key instructional tools, such a several protocols for asking Inquiry Questions.
• NEW! Planning Pages include examples of actual AI lesson and unit plans for each arts.
• NEW! Snapshots and Spotlights include old favorites from previous editions plus new thoughts and ideas from new teachers, principals, and artists involved in AI.
• NEW! Classroom Clips include short vignettes of the creative work of real and imagined people, including teachers and students to continually bring readers back to concrete examples of AI’s unique and powerful contributions to education.
• NEW! Seed Strategies include a revised collection of AI teaching strategy “seeds,” forming the meat of odd numbered chapters in Part II.
  • A Seed Strategy Index locates specific arts-based teaching ideas.
• NEW! AI Toolbox includes a list of AI strategies as places to get started, selected at the request of teachers, some of them easier to implement and others simply all-time favorites of the author.
• NEW! Appendices provide examples of key websites, a dozen assessment tools, strategies for differentiating instruction for students with special needs (including English language learners), and guidelines for arts-based field trips.
• NEW! Photographs of children and teachers’ faces add to the telling of the AI story.