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Engage California English Learners through the Arts!
  • Home
  • ABOUT
    • About ECELA
    • Project Flyer
    • Teaching Artists
    • Teacher Spotlight
  • Leadership
    • Institute Toolkit
    • Yr. 1 Leadership
    • Yr. 2 Leadership
    • Yr. 3 Leadership
    • Yr. 4 Leadership
    • Yr. 5 Leadership
  • Coaches/Teachers
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    • ECELA OER
    • Visual Arts
    • Dance & Movement
    • Music & Voice
    • Mindfulness Video Series
    • ELD
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Visual Arts Integration Videos

Ray Vargas: "Drawing as Language"

"Drawing, a spontaneous uncoded language, provides a medium for articulation and expression...drawing is the primary medium for all language values except practical communication..."- Bob Steele

Dr. Veronica Alvarez: Multilingual Learners and the Arts- Stories, Sights, and Sounds (Full Training Video)

Dr. Alvarez covers several different strategies such as "Let Them Play", Sight and Sounds w/ Tactile Poems, Telling Stories w/ Verbs and Phrases, Speak and Listen w/ Visualizing Art, and SEL and the Arts. 

Dr. Veronica Alvarez: Tactile Poem Lesson from Multilingual Learners and the Arts

Inspired by  a work of art, teachers created a tactile poem with adjectives and nouns of the different textures within the art piece.

Dr. Veronica Alvarez: Telling Stories Lesson from Multilingual Learners and the Arts

Using a piece of art, teachers tell stories using verbs and verb phrases

Dr. Veronica Alvarez: Visualizing Art from Multilingual Learners and the Arts

Dr. Alvarez reads through a passage and has educators visualizing the artwork through what is shared

SEL and the Arts Lesson

Educators will explore SEL and the Arts by working  cooperatively to accomplish a task. 

Dance Integration Videos

Reading a Dance

Virtual lesson in movement for language development. Treating movement as text. 

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