Engaging Students through Image and Word

This article focuses on the connection between the visual arts and language arts with the many teaching and learning possibilities that may arise from an art curriculum infused with language arts. As a K-5 art specialist in a rural Georgia public school, the author feels passionately about the importance of interdisciplinary art education for overall student success. Support from administration and general classroom colleagues has allowed the author the opportunity to explore the connections between the language arts curriculum and the visual arts curriculum in her classroom. Here Newland describes how they have explored and implemented a curriculum that fully incorporates both the Visual Arts and Language Arts Georgia Performance Standards.