For years, Nancy King has used the arts—drama, poetry, imagemaking, movement, storymaking, and music—as the core of her classroom work. She stresses the process of "making"—painting, sculpting, writing, moving, etc.—to help us connect who we are with what we think, feel, and know. She also recognizes the pleasure and self-esteem that children can derive from ownership, from being able to say "I made this."
In this book, teachers and those working with children will find ways to use the arts to teach language arts. The activities are designed to help teachers consciously and deliberately discover ways to connect what we learn to who we are. And to do it in ways that best facilitate learning.
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