Notes that using the visual arts enables students to gain better eye-hand coordination, visual representation skills, communicate ideas, and deeper understanding of the process of discovery. Considers how each of these areas contributes to the development of thinking, creating, problem solving and expressing thoughts through symbols. (SG)

Explains a strategy to improve comprehension and self-confidence in the at-risk reader. Notes that the method--The Image Format--has six steps that are interactive and interdependent. Finds that the results of the technique is self-repeated expansion of comprehension and self-confidence. Provides instruction on design, teacher use, and student…

Suggests that the combination of reading, writing, and art has the potential to reach those students who may not be reached by other vehicles. Describes the use of the directed reading, writing, and art activity, which has been used with all students from the gifted to those in Chapter 1 Reading and Resource classrooms. (RS)