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Integrating Art, Science and Writing

December 13, 2013 by Tania Marien

Making images as natural as speaking.

– Heinemann Publishing

This is the focus of New Entries: Learning by Writing and Drawing by Ruth Hubbard and Karen Ernst, a collection of case studies about teachers integrating art, science and writing in their classrooms. Thirteen educators contributed to this book and generously share classroom activities and their own learning processes with readers. Here is what you’ll find inside this enlightening resource:

    Drawing Rachel In
    Susan Benedict, elementary school teacher
    Benedict shares how she helped a 4th grade student with her writing and reading through nature journaling.

    Widening the Frame: Reading, Writing and Art in Learning

    Karen Ernst, teacher and author
    Ernst describes how she created her artists workshop, a structured yet flexible workshop in which students actively engage in literature, art and writing.

    Writing Pictures, Painting Words: Artists Notebooks in Literacy Workshops

    Nancy Winterbourne, elementary school teacher
    Winterbourne’s research interests include how drawing in science journals helps students use complex verbs to explain their observations. In this chapter, Winterbourne provides examples of how children’s communication skills are enhanced when they integrate drawing and writing.

    Opening Up to Art: Imagery and Story in a High School Reading Class

    Peter Thacker, teacher
    Thacker shares how he became an artist and learned how to create images with his students.

    Beyond Answers

    Jill Ostrow, teacher and author
    Ostrow writes about how to look at math concepts visually. She shares the problem-solving picture strategies her students created in her class.


    Putting Art on the Scientist’s Palette

    Mary Stein (scientist) and Brenda Power (writer)
    Stein and Power offer practical suggestions about how teachers can integrate art, science and language to move beyond the perceived boundaries between disciplines. 


    Imagination Through Images: Visual Responses to Literature

    Ruth Shagoury Hubbard
    Hubbard discusses how students can use drawing and writing to help them understand what they read.


    Reading the Image and Viewing the Words: Languages Intertwined

    Irene C. Fountas (Professor, Education)
    Janet L. Olson (Professor, Art Education)
    Fountas and Olson discuss how reading informs drawing and how viewing images informs writing. 


    Parallel Journeys: Exploring Through Art and Writing in Fourth Grade

    Peter von Euler, teacher
    Peter von Euler explains how the use of “observational journals” helped his students unite writing and art. 


    I Look at My Pictures and Then Try It: Art as a Tool for Learning

    Jean Anne Clyde (Professor, Literacy)
    Clyde shares a story about a student’s use of art as a learning tool and how this student searched for meaning in texts, learned from others and integrated drama, art and math.


    Reclaiming the Power of Visual Thinking with Adult Learners

    Ruth Shagoury Hubbard
    Through her work, Hubbard aims to make “visual language” commonplace among adults. In this chapter, she offers suggestions about how to introduce adults to visual learning.


    Background, Foreground: From Experience to Classroom Practice

    Karen Ernst
    Ernst writes about a summer art workshop for teachers and how this workshop made teachers more sensitive to how their students learn.


    Drawing My Selves Together: An Editor’s Notebook

    Toby Gordon, education publisher
    Editor Toby Gordon describes how editing the book Picturing Learning by Karen Ernst helped move her past negative comments about her work made by her kindergarten teacher.


New Entries: Learning by Writing and Drawing
is no longer in print. Search for a used copy at your favorite independent used bookstore.


Literature Cited

Hubbard, Ruth Shagoury and Karen Ernst. 1996. New Entries: Learning by Writing and Drawing. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann



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  1. on December 14, 2013 at 8:55 AM Linda

    Why are you tempting me with this if it’s out of print? Ugh. Sounds like a wonderful book!


    • on December 14, 2013 at 12:19 PM ArtPlantae Today

      Linda,

      It is a very good book. It is still available. I know it is available through Biblio.com. (Note: This link is to ArtPlantae on Biblio).



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