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Picturing Writing: Fostering Literacy Through Art
While at the 2009 NJ AEA convention in Somerville, I attended a workshop that "showcased" a neat program based out of New Hampshire. The program is basically an art and literature based appraoch to writing using collage! Students make all types of cool textured, marbled and funky papers, and construct wonderful collages to create a story. The results are beautiful and impressive.
Check it out--- the dates are not yet posted for 2010, but you can get an idea of what the program entails:
Picturing Writing