Developing Arts Loving Readers is based on the premise that children can
and do learn a great deal about the arts and their own abilities
innately. Involvement and immersion author Nan. L. McDonald argues, are
the ways in which children may feel welcome to write, move, create,
draw, and otherwise express ideas about art and music directly. Teaching
suggestions are offered to classroom teachers and other non-specialists,
so that classroom-reading activities may be extended into group
discussions, co-operative learning-arts projects, and creative
performances. Appended are extensive resource lists for further
integrated arts teaching in the classroom.