Literacyhead - Reading and Writing Lessons Using Visual Art

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Welcome to Literacyhead! We gather visual art and organize it in reading and writing lessons and tools. From comprehension strategies to writing workshop mini-lessons, Literacyhead uses visual art to teach reading and writing standards in ways that are engaging and accessible to students with different needs.

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Art & Literacy

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The Art of Teaching Beginnings :: Images to give writers ideas. Six pieces of visual art are arranged in sets. Sometimes these sets align with a particular theme, while other times they are very different. These are <strong>visual writing prompts</strong> intended as options for students and teachers exploring topics for writing.

The Art of Teaching Beginnings

The Art of Teaching Strategies :: A <span style=font-family: arial;><strong>lesson</strong> including visual art that illustrates <strong>comprehension strategies. </strong>The lesson includes four mentor text images that illustrate the theme of the articles and conversation prompts and suggested language for connecting the parts of the lesson. The focus of the lesson is further illustrated with four <strong>text excerpts</strong> from favorite children's books.</span>

The Art of Teaching Strategies

The Art of Teaching with Technology :: A thematic compilation of 8-12 exceptional <strong>websites</strong>. Site seeing serves as a clearinghouse for some of the best digital resources the web has to offer.

The Art of Teaching with Technology

The Art of Teaching with Art :: Art for artâ€™s sake. Twelve pieces of visual art by a single artist are displayed to offer teachers and students a virtual space to enjoy art. This gallery often exhibits the artwork of an author or illustrator featured in one of our author studies.

The Art of Teaching with Art

Free Articles

The Art of Teaching with Reflection :: <strong>Essays</strong> and <strong>reviews</strong> that will fuel your <strong>creative life</strong>. These articles, most written by Cameron Brooks, offer you the opportunity to think of your creative self in and out of the classroom. Topics may include reviews of grown-up books, movies, product reviews, and other offerings that invite you to think about the ways art influences our lives.

The Art of Teaching with Reflection

The Art of Teaching with Books :: A <strong>themed</strong> collection of ten brief <strong>book reviews</strong>. We review picture books that invite you and your students to think about a genre or topic in new ways and to think about classic books from a fresh perspective. Each book in these reviews has an Order button for one-click access to vendors outside Literacyhead. <em>Literacyhead is an affiliate site for Amazon.com and receives a percentage of Amazon revenues generated from books ordered through our site.</em>

The Art of Teaching with Books

The Art of Literacy Coaching :: <strong>Essays</strong> and <strong>reflections</strong> about literacy coaching. These may include book reviews, protocols, videos, or other content to support coaches as they build their repertoire of <strong>strategies</strong> for supporting teachers' job-imbedded professional learning.

The Art of Literacy Coaching

The Art of Teaching with Inspiration :: Visual art that provides <strong>inspiration</strong> and <strong>creative fuel</strong>. Most of the graphics relate to literacy themes and some are information graphics depicting statistics related to literacy. Most Literacy Graphics are available for purchase from the artists, whose sites are accessible from the Literacy Graphics page.

The Art of Teaching with Inspiration

Lessons

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The Art of Teaching Reading

The Art of Teaching Vocabulary

The Art of Teaching Writing

The Art of Teaching Words

The Art of Teaching Sounds

The Art of Teaching About Tests

Tools

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