Picture Power: Placing Artistry and Literacy on the Same Page

Autor/inn/en	Soundy, Cathleen S; Guha, Smita; Qiu, Yun
Titel	Picture Power: Placing Artistry and Literacy on the Same Page
Quelle	In: Young Children, 62 (2007) 3, S.82-88 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1538-6619
Schlagwörter	Picture Books; Montessori Method; Childrens Art; Visual Learning; Young Children; Kindergarten; Urban Schools; Visual Perception; Verbal Ability; Literacy Education; Illustrations; Creativity; Self Expression; Program Effectiveness; Freehand Drawing; Emergent Literacy; Art Products; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Picture book; Bilderbuch; Montessori pedagogics; Montessori-Pädagogik; Visual education; Visuelles Lernen; Frühe Kindheit; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Mündliche Leistung; Bildliche Darstellung; Kreativität; Ausdruck; Drawing; Zeichnen; Frühleseunterricht; Künstlerische Produktion
Abstract	In this article, the authors describe Picture Power, a project they implemented during late spring in a full-day Montessori preschool-kindergarten program in Philadelphia. In this project, the authors set out to gather information about children's visual learning. The underlying question was whether artwork could provide useful clues to inform teachers about what children understand about literacy. This article explores what the children's drawings reveal about their viewing skills and examines the interplay between visual and verbal literacies. The children who took part in Picture Power absorbed details of the illustrations and accurately reproduced this information visually. Their drawings show sensitivity to each illustrator's overall composition and attention to various elements and detail within individual parts. Prompting children to draw and talk about their artwork may have a powerful effect on learning and remembering details from picture books. Although it is difficult to generalize the outcomes in this Montessori program to all classrooms, results indicate that Picture Power is an effective way to foster creative self-expression and literacy. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10