How can an elementary school teacher most effectively produce fluent readers?
2. What is your first answer? (In complete sentence format)
An elementary school teacher can most effectively produce fluent readers by providing them [students] materials and time to develop fine motor skills.
3. What is your second answer? (In complete sentence format)
An elementary school teacher can most effectively produce fluent readers by using the visual arts to stimulate response and understanding from children at all stages of literacy development.
4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
- R1: Helps with developing minds because it "produces a less complicated way of thinking." While shadowing one of my mentors, there was a situation where language barriers negatively affected the learning environment. A student with limited english didn't understand much of the lesson so visuals of what my mentor was describing helped greatly.
- R2: Using visual arts, students are able to picture people and places, allowing them to comprehend what they see. In Visual Thinking Strategies, a third grade class analyzed a painting from the great depression and the teacher facilitated the discussion by paraphrasing their comment and providing new vocabulary. "They model good language usage." pg.119
- R3: Increases the appeal to the task at hand and enhances a student's learning experience. During mentorship, I observed that students were most motivated when drawing and painting was involved in learning their sight words. The kids easily learned what appealed to them.
5. What printed source best supports your answer?
Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine (BOOK)
For more information regarding this book click here.
“What’s going on in this picture?”
"With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."
"With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."
"It provides for open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, and significantly increases students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way."
6. What other source supports your answer?
The Parent Backpack for K-5 by ML Nichols
My essential question was recently revised and my first answer was adjusted accordingly. I drew my second answer from not only personal experience but through research. Visual arts has been proven to have a positive effect on a student's academic character and is engaging, but like books, they must be selected to appeal to the taste of the individual.
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