PopUp Book Making: A Visual Arts and Language Arts Integration

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Pop-Up Book Making A Visual Arts and Language
Arts Integration

• By Mindy J. Kessler
• Faculty Sponsor Dr. Cathy Smilan

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Research

• Integrating visual arts with other subjects
  facilitates learning and aids cognitive
  development through sensory stimulation.
• (Lackey, 2003 Andrzejczak, 2005
  
• Althouse, 2003 Irwin, Kind,
  Grauer,
• de Cosson, 2005)

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Integration

• The integration of visual arts and language arts
  can help students build their writing and
  communication skills.
• (Johnson, 1992)

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Sunshine State Standards

• Visual Arts K-2
• (VA.B.1.1.4) Uses the elements of art and the
  principles of design to effectively communicate
  ideas.
• Language Arts K-2
• (LA.B.1.1.2) Drafts and revises simple sentences
  and passages, stories, letters, and simple
  explanations that express ideas clearly show an
  awareness of topic and audience have a
  beginning, middle, and ending effectively use
  common words have supporting detail and are in
  legible printing.

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Visual Arts and Language Arts

• Similarities
• Viewing a piece of artwork encourages spoken or
  written words.
• Reading a story evokes images in ones mind
  provoked by the text.

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Strategies for Integration

• There are many strategies to increase students
  language development by integrating these two
  subjects.
• Bookmaking is one strategy.

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Bookmaking Pop-up Books

• Effective educational tools
• Interactive
• Provide prompts or inspirational doorways
• Students respond by writing about their
  observations and interpretations.
• Alternative assessment

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Benefits to Teachers

• Bookmaking persuades students to write thoughts
  and information prompted from the cuts and folds
  making the experience memorable.
• When students begin creating a book, the desire
  to fill it up with writing and images encourages
  them to persevere until they have completed the
  project.

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Assessment

• Teacher observation during studio time
• Students assess own work
• Group critique
• Rubric Assesses students ability to satisfy
  lesson objectives using criteria that determines
  how well their project demonstrates what they
  have learned.

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Conclusion

• Value of Bookmaking
• Arts integration increases students' knowledge of
  the visual arts and the language arts.
• Increases their intrinsic motivation to learn.

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Materials

• Paper
• All sizes/colors (card stock is best)
• Scissors
• Glue
• Ruler
• String
• Crayons
• Markers

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Examples
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References

• Althouse, R. (2003). The colors of learning
  Integrating the visual arts into the early
  childhood curriculum. New York, NY Teachers
  College Press.
• Andrzejczak, N., Trainin, G., Poldberg, M.
  (2005). From image to text Using images in the
  writing process. International Journal of
  Education the Arts, 6(12). Retrieved 7/15/06
  from http//ijea.asu.edu/v6n12/
• Blasingame, J., Erickson, M., Woodson, L.,
  2005. In Stockrocki, M (Ed.). (2005).
  Interdisciplinary art education Building bridges
  to connect disciplines and cultures, pp. 199-210.
  Reston, VA National Art Education Association.
• Efland, A. (2002). Art and cognition. New York,
  NY Teachers College Press.
• Irwin, R., Kind, S. W., Grauer, K., de Cosson,
  A., 2005. In Stockrocki, M (Ed.). (2005).
  Interdisciplinary art education Building bridges
  to connect disciplines and cultures, pp. 199-210.
  Reston, VA National Art Education Association.
• Johnson, P. (1992). A book of ones own
  Developing literacy through making books.
  Portsmouth, NH Heinemann Educational Books, Inc.
  
• Lackey, L., 2005. In Stockrocki, M (Ed.). (2005).
  Interdisciplinary art education Building bridges
  to connect disciplines and cultures, pp. 199-210.
  Reston, VA National Art Education Association.
• http//www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popu
  p2/introduction.htm
• http//www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks/index.ht
  m
• http//www.markhiner.co.uk/producing.htm
• http//www.makingbooks.com/workshops2.shtml
• http//www.beetlelady.com/?page_id10

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Other Bookmaking Books

• Caraway, Georgia. "The Story of the Tuck
  Postcards." Denton Record-Chronicle 1 May 2000.
• Haining, Peter. Movable Books An Illustrated
  History. London New English Library, 1979.
• Johnson, Paul. (1992). Pop-Up Paper Engineering
  Cross-Curricular Activities in Design Engineering
  Technology, English and Art. Philadelphia PA The
  Falmer Press.
• Lindberg, Sten G. "Mobiles in Books Volvelles,
  Inserts, Pyramids, Divinations, and Children's
  Games." Trans. Willian S. Mitchell. The Private
  Library 3rd series 2.2 (1979) 49-82.
• Montanaro, Ann R. Pop-up and Movable Books A
  Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J. Scarecrow Press,
  1993.
• Vries, Leonard de. A Treasury of Illustrated
  Children's Books Early Nineteenth-Century
  Classics from the Osborne Collection. 1st ed. New
  York Abbeville Press, 1989.
• Whitton, Blair. Paper Toys of the World.
  Cumberland, Md. Hobby House Press, 1986.
• Bohning, Gerry, Phillips, Ann. (1993).
  Literature on the Move Making and Using Pop-Up
  and Lift-Flap Books. Teacher Ideas Press.