ABSTRACT
Chapter Three, English Language Arts: What Is It, How Is It Learned, and How Do You Teach It? Explains the how the modalities of the ELA curriculum, writing, reading, and speaking (and listening and movement) are essential elements of the ELA curriculum and how this can be a basis for creating a curriculum of units and lessons. Once teachers understand that they can create a text out of a text (intermodality), many possibilities open up for creating lessons which get the work of art, or text, under consideration, “in the head,” that is, in the long-term memory.
