Literacyhead: A Website Merging Many Kinds of Literacies
In these days when the visual arts have been squeezed out of the curriculum in so many schools, the website Literacyhead.com provides a wonderful resource for teachers. The subscription site (with plenty of free resources as well) builds reading, writing, and vocabulary lessons around both fine art and illustrations from picture books. We spoke recently with one of the founders of the site, author-blogger-literacy coach Jan Burkins, about ways to use art to stimulate thinking about the Common Core Standards...