Literature-Based Art & Music: Children's Books & Activities to Enrich the K-5 Curriculum

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Literature-Based Art & Music is both a guide to exciting books and a blueprint for rewarding activities that contribute to student achievement within elementary school programs. This book is the ideal handbook for achieving the goals of your curriculum, and an exciting addition to the Oryx Press Literature-Based Series.

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A rare treat! A book that offers many exciting and surprising insights into linking literature and the arts. * Emergency Librarian *
All the higher mental processes involve more than the simple awareness of facts; they depend also on the ability to conceive of what might be as well as what is, to construct mental images in new and original ways. Experiences in literature and the arts may well make a larger contribution to those abilities than studies usually assumed to develop abstract thinking. * Educational Policies Commision *
This provocative and timely publication illustrates how children's books can be integrated into kindergarten through fifth grade art and music lessons, or vice-versa. The authors have done a masterful job. . . . [A] must for administrator's, curriculum specialist's, art teacher's or elementary teacher's reference shelf. * Teaching Art in Elementary School *

Author Bio

Mildred Knight Laughlin, now deceased, was a professor emeritus in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She coauthored with Letty Watt, Developing Learning Skills Through Children's Literature: An Idea Book for K-5 Classrooms and Libraries and with Patricia Kardaleff she wrote Literature-Based Social Studies: Children's Books and Activities to Enrich the K-5 Curriculum, both published by Oryx Press. Her education included a BA in English from Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, MA in education from Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, and a MLS and a PhD in education from the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Terri Parker Street holds a BS in music education and a Master's of Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She taught music in elementary and secondary schools for 13 years and has presented workshops in the areas of music and the visual arts. She has been an elementary school library media specialist for the past five years.