Literacy in the Arts
“Fostering students’ [literacy] skills is an important part of the teachers’ role in the arts classroom. Students need to be able to use aural, oral, physical, and visual communication as well as reading, writing, and media literacy skills to gain new learning in the arts and to communicate their understanding of what they have learned.”
The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8, The Arts, 2009
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 Dance, Grade 9 unit, “Dance Me a Story” |
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| Media Arts, Grade 10 unit, “My Place in the World” |
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| Music, Grade 9 unit, “Composing with Courage” |
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| Visual Arts, Grade 8 unit, “My Comic World” | Web page | ||
| Music, Grade 7 unit, “I’ve Got the Blues” | Web page | ||
| Think Literacy Drama and Dance, Grades 7-10 (2005) | PDF 1.3 M | ||
| Think Literacy Music, Grades 7-9 (2004) | PDF 1.6 M | ||
| Think Literacy Music, Grades 10-12 (2005) | PDF 1.3 M | ||
| Think Literacy Visual Arts, Grades 7-12 (2005) | PDF 640 K | ||