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Goal

My goal is to continue to provide high quality art materials to allow my team to implement the picturing writing process with our students. The students will create art and use these images to develop their poems and stories.We will implement a creative arts unit of combining their hand painted watercolors with literature and poetry. The students will create books of paintings and poetry about time of day (dawn sunrise, day, sunset, twilight and night etc.), seasons and weather. This unit allows the children to apply what they are learning about language skills such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors and parts of speech to create wonderful poems and stories. This grant was funded a few yeas ago and my goal is to replace the paints and materials so we may continue to use this amazing process with students. 

What will be done with my students

Picturing Writing: Fostering Literacy through Art is an art-and-literature-based research proven approach to writing developed at UNH that integrates visual modes of thinking at every stage of the writing process. Picturing Writing utilizes simple crayon resist art techniques and quality literature in a progression of mini-lessons that teach essential literacy skills to students with diverse learning styles. During Artists/Writers Workshop, students draft their ideas in images first. They learn how to create pictures that tell a story and write words that paint pictures. As students become fluent in two languages, they are able to approach writing from a position of strength according to their individual learning style. The key elements of story are taught through the dual languages of pictures and words .This language-rich visual process supports the creation of descriptive passages, poetry, personal narrative, fiction, research-based stories, and descriptive report writing. With the proper supplies I will implement this program and the students on our team will develop both their art and writing skills and produce published pieces to share with their peers. 

Benefits to my students

By continuing the arts and literacy program in which I have received training my students will be able to access their ideas and improve their literacy skills. Picturing Writing within the Writing Process was validated by the US Department of Education as an "innovative and effective literacy program" in 1998. Based on our documented success, Picturing Writing and Image-Making have been selected to partner with schools receiving federal Comprehensive School reform Grants and Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grants. This process is research based and will have a high impact on my student's achievement. Students participating in Picturing Writing during the 2007-2008 school year demonstrated statistically significant gains in writing achievement and visual literacy skills as compared to students in demographically matched comparison groups. I used this as part of my best practice for Golden Apple process. To find more information on the success of this program visit www.picturingwriting.org.  

Budget Narrative

These materials will allow my kinder team to continue to implement the picturing writing process and will be used to teach other teachers and children how to integrate the art and writing processes. Thank You! 

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