Envisioning Writing Toward and Integration of Drawing and Writing

Name: Envisioning Writing Toward and Integration of Drawing and Writing
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ISBN: 9780435087005

ISBN-10: 0435087002

ISBN-13: 9780435087005

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Authors: Janet Olson

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Many children learn more easily and naturally by observation and image, rather than by sound and cipher. It is not at all unusual for children with high visual aptitudes to record and express their experiences and feelings in highly detailed drawings; when asked to express those same feelings in words, however, they draw a blank. These children are "visual learners." In Envisioning Writing, Janet Olson articulates classroom strategies to help teachers understand these children better and thereby facilitate a higher level of learning for the visual learner. Detailing the strong similarities between the visual arts and the language arts, Olson describes how the writing skills of today's…

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List price: $38.10
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 5/18/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.30" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Problem: Visual Or Verbal Learner?



Toward a New Methodology: Envisioning Writing and Educational Practice



The Art-Education Program


A New Methodology


Summary



The Language-Arts Program


Verbal Learners and Learning


One Informs the Other


Benefits of Visual-Narrative Drawing for Students and Teachers


Language-Arts Teachers Don't Have to Be "Good Artists"


Evaluating Students: What to Look For


Evaluation Strategies


Teaching Strategies and Suggested Activities



The Special-Education Program


Becoming Informed



Theoretical Implications for Visual and Verbal Learners



Historical Grounds for Teaching Writing Through Visual and Verbal Modes of Expression


The Historical Development of Writing and Its Relation to Children


Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Theories and Practices: Rousseau, Froebel, Alcott


Implications for Contemporary Practice



Review of Current Educational Practices Affecting Visual and Verbal Learners


The Art-Education Program


The Language-Arts Program


The Special-Education Program for the Learning Disabled


Conclusion


Bibliography