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Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children

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This book is a marvelous resource for all teachers, but especially art teachers. The author has researched art from all times and places and then written stories that will delight children as they draw them into other worlds through art. The bibliographies alone are worth the price of the book.

This book has been a lifesaver for my art classes. The students love for me to read the stories as they are working on their art project! Which keeps them very quiet!! Never before have I seen so many great stories of so many great artist all in one book! Any art teacher will love it!!

"Art in Story" is an excellent resource for teachers of all grade levels. This book helps teachers to see connections between art and history and gives them the tools to teach young children the same. Upon reading and using this text, I started to see how each lesson could be adapted to other topics or artists. An excellent resource!

This is one of the only books I've seen that approaches teaching art in a holistic, content-rich manner. The author has compiled a wonderful set of resources. Each section begins with a brief overview of the period or style being discussed....very helpful refresher. This is followed by a story about the artist that really captures the kids' attention. There is no need for extensive research on your own, the author has done it for you. She provided extensive lists of resources for each topic, along with a brief comment about each. I am a National Board Certified Teacher, with experience and think this book is one of the best finds ever, a must-have resource for art teachers!

We are a homeschooling family and this book has been an absolute treasure for our learning adventures. Saccardi's book shares information on the history of art during each time period, stories about the artists, suggestions for famous works of that artist to show, journaling exercises and recommended art projects done in the method or similar style of the artist you are studying.

We've used this book along with our history. When we started with ancient history and nomads we studied cave paintings and drew chalk pictures on brown grocery sacks. When we reached the Middle Ages we found a kit to help us do illumination. When we reached American history we painted historical scenes on large sheets of tagboard in effort to paint like Benjamin West. I'm very careful about money spent on materials and this book is one I've never regretted buying. I'm so glad to see it in print again so others can discover it!

-Jeanne

Has your school district cut back on the arts. This book will help you intergrate art into social studies and Langauge Arts. In addition to the excelent lessons, the format is easily adaptable to author/illustrators.

Art in Story is a must have for the class room teacher. It will excite and delight the children, give them a better understanding of their culture as it fits into a world culture both historically, artistically, and scientifically. Crossing the disciplines is a very powerful teaching technique and does increase learning. This book makes all of that happen and is lots of fun in the process.

I truly wish I had had this book years ago.

Sheila Lederer

This book has a lot of ideas for teaching art history in a meaningful way to children.

"Art in Story" is a great resource for anyone who is teaching art to children. I am an art docent at my children's elementary school and I have found this book to be the "go to" book when it comes to talking about artists and their work at an age appropriate level. The stories about the artists are engaging, the information is concise, the resources numerous and the activities are fantastic. This book alone is making me a better docent.
This book gives educators as well as volunteers the tools needed to teach children new ways of looking at art, the knowledge base to understand the art, practical hands on activities to reinforce the lesson as well as a great short story to peak the children's interest and keep them engaged.

Overall I give this book an A+

I was disappointed because I never received this product. I received a note back from the sender that it was undeliverable to that address. They had my absolute correct address, as I placed another amazon order at the same time with the same address and received it two days later. Clearly, their shipping department typed in the address incorrectly on the package.