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‘Literacy through Art’
on May 7, 2009
At Lyndon School in West Roxbury, Mass., two teachers found a way to blend art, science and vocabulary into one lesson by having her fourth- and fifth-grade Sheltered English students paint murals, the Wicked Local reports.
The three biome murals were pictures of an ocean, a desert and a rainforest, and they took about one month to complete. The teachers said the project gave the students a chance to work in a new medium. In addition, the kids used books and the Internet to research, which “forced them to learn new words, discuss new science topics and discover new artistic talents.”
“They struggle with reading and writing, so I wanted to motivate them with something that wasn’t reading or writing,” one of the teachers said. “It was literacy through art.”
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