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1. Art Activities For Language Learners And Teachers Presented by Tim Walsh, Ph.D., M.F.A. [email_address] NYSTESOL Annual Conference White Plains, NY November 13, 2009

2. I can see the green leaf. I can see the green leaf. I can see the green leaf… Handout, p. 2

3. Group Language Experience Approach Activity (Handout, p. 2) What did we do?

4. Look at the picture. What do you see? Handout, p. 3

5. Comparison/Contrast Handout, p. 4

6. Work with a partner. Look at the picture on the top. Look at the picture on the bottom. 1. Ask your partner. Are they the same or different? 2. Trace all of the dotted (---) lines. 3. Circle the things you see in the picture on the top, but you don’t see in the picture on the bottom. 4. Ask your partner: What other uses can you make of this type of exercise? What could students draw? What could they color? How could they use English to describe their discoveries? Handout, p. 4

7. Handout, p. 5 Work in a small group. Read the LEA instructions. Then, choose one of your group to lead a brief LEA activity based on the image of the bats. Choose a hypothetical age, and L2 proficiency level for your group. Listen for the time limit before you begin!

8. Handout, p. 5

9. Student Work

10. Finding Identity: A Chinese Middle Schooler

11. Creative Art, Creative Writing: A Fifth Grader’s Storied Illustration

12. Art and Text: Illustrating and Responding to a Literary Passage (Grade 9)

13. Materials Development

14. Materials Development: Sequencing

15. Materials Development: Try Dumpr! Before Dumpr After Dumpr

16. The End