Do you read to your kids? Do you think reading to them is an easy way to get them to relax before bedtime? Or... Do you just like to spend time with them quietly doing something you both love to do?
Do you like to color with your kids? I have written a book that you can read and color. It is proven that when a child reads and draws/colors about what they read they remember more of what they read about.
While "The Adventures of Billy Chicken Toes & the Wolf" is the first and only book in the "Add Your Own Art Children's Books" line, there are more books coming soon. This book is priced at what the Publisher thinks best. I will be publishing the rest of the books in the "Add Your Own Art Children's Books" line myself, at much cheaper price.
Click on this link to get your copy today!
http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Billy-Chicken-Toes-Wolf/dp/1612049214/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&ie=UTF8&keywords=the%20adventures%20of%20billy%20chicken%20toes%20%26%20the%20wolf&qid=1427571181&riskType=deactivatedCard&sr=8-1&successUpdatingCard=1
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Reading, Comprehension, and Art
While searching the internet for an idea for a new blog post I ran across an excellent newsletter dated September 1, 2007, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. STEP=UP, Special Teachers Exceptional Pupils = Urban Promise. This newsletter perfectly expresses the connection between "Add Your Own Art Children's Books" and reading comprehension.
"Teacher, and art therapist Ellen Holtzblatt enumerates three central ideas to consider when interweaving art into the curriculum to facilitate comprehension: students can use imagery, students can demonstrate and form meaning from the text(s), and build community through doing and sharing art. “I usually use a combination of reading, discussion, art and writing,” she explains. “I start with text and then use a combination of the other
modalities to deepen the students' experience. Art bypasses verbal limitations and intellectual expectations.”
Art does more than illustrate learning, Ms. Holzblatt adds. Art enhances learning. The process of creating can be much more important than the product, and that process can be seen as a valid tool to understand students’ meaning-making. Students will feel safer using art in this capacity if they know that they are not being judged critically on aesthetics.
Expressions through art allow students to connect sensory images with multiple literacy skills and knowledge. Storyboarding is a terrific strategy for this, and can be used across subject matter. For example, students could create a series of images to reflect the plot of a story or the viewpoint of people during a certain time period."
You can read this entire article here
By Jeannee` DeWolfe
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"Teacher, and art therapist Ellen Holtzblatt enumerates three central ideas to consider when interweaving art into the curriculum to facilitate comprehension: students can use imagery, students can demonstrate and form meaning from the text(s), and build community through doing and sharing art. “I usually use a combination of reading, discussion, art and writing,” she explains. “I start with text and then use a combination of the other
modalities to deepen the students' experience. Art bypasses verbal limitations and intellectual expectations.”
Art does more than illustrate learning, Ms. Holzblatt adds. Art enhances learning. The process of creating can be much more important than the product, and that process can be seen as a valid tool to understand students’ meaning-making. Students will feel safer using art in this capacity if they know that they are not being judged critically on aesthetics.Expressions through art allow students to connect sensory images with multiple literacy skills and knowledge. Storyboarding is a terrific strategy for this, and can be used across subject matter. For example, students could create a series of images to reflect the plot of a story or the viewpoint of people during a certain time period."
You can read this entire article here
By Jeannee` DeWolfe
http://
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Art & Comprehension Skills
Children have to remember what they read to illustrate the blank frames in the book. It's all about comprehension. The more children comprehend the faster they learn. So it would be advantageous for parents and teachers to use this book to build comprehension skills.
This book is also an art book. Children use their artistic ability to illustrate their book. No matter the skill level, they will be proud to show the book they illustrated to family and friends.
If the illustrations are sent to me via email I will post them here. Add the child's name, and anything else you wish for me to post along with the drawing. Please feel free to send as many sketches as you wish.
By Jeannee` DeWolfe
addyourownart@yahoo.com
This book is also an art book. Children use their artistic ability to illustrate their book. No matter the skill level, they will be proud to show the book they illustrated to family and friends.
If the illustrations are sent to me via email I will post them here. Add the child's name, and anything else you wish for me to post along with the drawing. Please feel free to send as many sketches as you wish.
By Jeannee` DeWolfe
addyourownart@yahoo.com
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