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The Arts As Meaning Makers : Integrating Literature and the Arts Throughout the Curriculum *Canadian Edition*

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While I am sure this book may have some good ideas in it, they would be hard to find. This book is very wordy. I was looking for a book full of integration ideas, this book is full of more justifications of why the arts are important. I know why they are important, what more authors (including this one) need to do is tell us simply and practically how to do it better.

This book is an excellent resource to use in the classroom. I am a visual arts educator @ the elementary level and have found this very helpful in incorporating the other arts into my curriculumn, in particular movement. The arts are important to include across the curiculumn and you will find the examples helpful and easy to understand and incorporate.

I had the pleasure of having Claudia Cornett visit my school recently. She is a very energetic lady with a storehouse of great ideas! Her discussion, which was based on her book, made a whole room of teachers laugh and act silly. We were playing sock toss to help children with word chunks. We became actors with a simple pen. This pen became: a hairbrush, a microphone, a straw...

I can't wait to pick up a copy of this book and use all of the ideas in my classroom. Her energy and fire is contagious!