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Journals/ Sketchbooks are valuable tools even for first grade emerging writers.

Who:

What:

Or…..

Note taking … recording observations…

responding to a quote from an artist…

How-To story about steps after a project is completed…

Self-assessment

or

teacher assessment …

PR and parent communication…

Josh’s portrait in profile of mom…

Mom’s portrait in profile of Josh…

Student journals can be stored in colored folders designating each grade level, and stacked on the table in a “folder holder” for the students in all classes who sit on the table during that day.

Where:

When:

Classrooms.. Galleries…Field trips...

“Both art specialists and classroom teachers can move art activities to the heart of the curriculum by using art as a means of communication and by adopting language development goals for instruction as well as art-based instructional objectives.” Paula Eubanks, School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, GA NAEA Advisory, Art and Language Development Summer l998.

Why:

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Unyung’s Grade 1

Sketchbook/ Journal  

 

Journaling is an ILLUSTRATIONof student progress…

“We are taught to write by copying marks, and even when we copy marks we all make them individually. We all have different kinds of handwriting.

Within a year or two of being taught to write, things happen to our handwriting and personal ways of making marks develop very quickly.

That’s the way, really, you learn to draw.

And in learning to draw … you learn to

look. It’s not the beauty of the marks we

like in writing, it’s the beauty of the ideas.”

………………………………….artist David Hockney