Creative arts in a literacy lesson

I requested my mentor teacher for a lesson to teach in her class. She helped me to prepare a literacy lesson that incorporated creativearts. The lesson entailed reading a story. The ‘word search bingo’ game was part of the learning process. The initial stages of the lesson entailed playing the word search bingo game. The words in use were vocabularies that the learners were bound to meet in the story. The familiarization with the word as well, as how they are used made the story reading easy to comprehend and identify with. At first, the learners were overexcited thus making the learning process chaotic. The mentor teacher intervened and there was moderate interactions among the learners.

The game helped me to identify the different capabilities among the learners. The students that I noted as slow learners, I had to take more time in addressing the words that were challenging to them. Equally, the game brought out the gifted learners. I ensured that they had additional words to search. According to Ewing (2019), creative arts create a balance between slow learners and gifted learners since their needs areaddressed. That way, all learners seemed to progress together. This was evident when the actual reading took place. The learners were able to identify various words they had encountered in the game.

My mentor teacher was quite impressed with the outcome of the lesson. She noted that my lesson was excellent bearing in mind I had to prepare for the lesson within a limited timeline. She was quick to remind me the importance of controlling the class. The behavior of the learners contribute to the creation of the ideal learning environment. Apart from the need to control the class, I noted the importance of integrating creative arts to the learning process. The ‘word search bingo’ prepared the learners for the tasks ahead and it served as a pre-assessment tool. I understood the learners’ capabilities through the game.

References

Ewing, R. (2019). Embedding arts-rich English and literacy pedagogies in the classroom. Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, 27(1), 7