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=**Fostering Literacy through Art!**= There are several ways to connect literacy and art. This is especially helpful with visual learners in your classroom. Here are some ideas to bring to the classroom.
 * Introduce a concept/theme of a lesson with a **short comic strip**- this helps all students visual or not. Students will be focused and engaged. * For a technology twist- why not use an online comic strip? Here is a site where students can create their own educational comic strip! It's a great way to integrate art, literacy and technology! [|Make your own comic strip]!
 * Storybook Art- Here is a great site about [|storybook art]
 * Picture-Writing and Image-Making- helping diverse learners understand literacy through art.
 * http://www.picturingwriting.org/combined.html
 * Story Mapping is another great way for students to practice reading comprehension and sequencing. A great site is [|http://www.readwritethink.org]. It has great resources for various genres of reading and writing. Students really love the shape poem feature!
 * What about having your student/child make a storybook on the computer? That way they can use technology, and reading skills, typing skills and use different graphics available to create a personalized storybook. Check this lesson out to see how easy it really is! http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/comm_invest/ogp/projects/storybook.html
 * Another GREAT site is [|www.monsterexchange.org]. I have used this with my students and they loved it! In this site, students draw a monster and write a descriptive paragraph about it. Then, you pair with another classroom from somewhere around the world and exchange descriptive paragraphs. The students draw the monster they have recieved a description of. After both pictures have been drawn, teachers scan and upload the images so students can see how effective their description was. It's fantastic!

[|Check Out Photo Story]

narration. A free download if you have Windows, it truly brings stories to life with technology.**
 * Photo Story allows you and students to tell their stories with dramatic effects such as music, animation and



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