ABSTRACT
This book features effective artistic practices to improve literacy and language skills for emergent bilinguals in PreK-12 schools. Including insights from key voices from the field, this book highlights how artistic practices can increase proficiency in emergent language learners and students with limited access to academic English. Challenging current prescriptions for teaching English to language learners, the arts-integrated framework in this book is grounded in a sense of student and teacher agency and offers key pedagogical tools to build upon students’ sociocultural knowledge and improve language competence and confidence. Offering rich and diverse examples of using the arts as a way of talking, this volume invites teacher educators, teachers, artists, and researchers to reconsider how to fully engage students in their own learning and best use the resources within their own multilingual educational settings and communities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|74 pages
Walk the Talk
chapter 2|14 pages
Heritage Languages as a Valuable Asset for Multilingual Children in US Schools and Beyond
section II|85 pages
In the Heights
chapter 8|22 pages
Picturebook Illustrations
chapter 9|12 pages
Constructing Stories Using Language and Digital Art
chapter |5 pages
Questions for Reflection and Further Applications for Practice
section III|71 pages
Lift Every Voice