Painting Writing, Writing Painting: Thinking, Seeing, and Problem Solving Through Story. (17th December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martens, Prisca; Martens, Ray; Doyle, Michelle Hassay; Loomis, Jenna; Fuhrman, Laura; Stout, Robbie; Soper, Elizabeth
• Is Part Of: Reading teacher. Volume 71:Number 6(2018)
• Page Start: 669
• Page End: 679
• Publication Date: 2017-12-17
• Subjects: Instructional strategies; methods and materials -- Literature -- Writing -- Visual literacy < Digital/media literacies -- Literature‐based instruction < Literature -- Children's literature -- Instructional strategies -- teaching strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Writing strategies < Strategies, methods, and materials -- Modes < Writing -- Writer's workshop < Writing -- 1‐Early childhood -- 2‐Childhood; Reading (Elementary) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Periodicals; 372.405
• DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1668
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-0561

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to share how the authors supported kindergartners' and first graders' developing creativity through stories they composed in writing and art. Over eight years, the authors explored ways to use picturebooks as mentor texts to help students explore how the authors and artists create meaning multimodally. This article shares minilessons and examples of how students creatively and imaginatively told their stories; learned to think, see, and reason; and invented and problem solved their stories, seamlessly weaving their meanings into writing and art.