Multiple Forms of Literacy: Teaching Literacy and the Arts - Softcover

Piazza, Carolyn L.

9780130955036: Multiple Forms of Literacy: Teaching Literacy and the Arts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130955035 ISBN 13: 9780130955036

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

This book extends traditional language arts content by offering multiple communicative channels for expressing, representing, and responding to ideas. The book equips teachers with ways to maximize children's creative potential and critical literacy through activities involving “the arts” (visual arts, music, dance, drama and film including video, TV and computer technology). The author provides thorough coverage of literacy products, process strategies, procedures, and resources not typically found in language arts texts. All of the literacy tasks presented, which fit into Howard Gardner's framework of multiple intelligences, recognize children's different abilities, talents, needs, learning styles, interests, and cultural background.

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About the Author:

"Carolyn L. Piazza" is an associate professor of reading and language arts and elementary education at Florida State University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in language arts, written composition, and applied linguistics. She also spends each semester supervising student teachers and working with classroom teachers in the public schools. Dr. Piazza is the author of several professional works on language and composition and, for a time, wrote a weekly literacy column, Ask Carolyn, in the local newspaper. Her most recent book, "Multiple Forms of Literacy: Teaching Literacy and the Arts," brings together her passion for language with the visual and performing arts. She enjoys gardening, studying Italian, and, above all, her two Yorkies.

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