Students create ceramic place settings based on literary characters.
Connecting to Your Teaching
Reflect on Your Practice
What challenges do your students have in reading and making sense of works of literature?
How can you use artworks to provide inspiration for students, or as models for the ways they can express themselves?
Who in your school might you collaborate with on a project that fuses story interpretation and visual art making?
What constraints of time, scheduling, and resources would you face in trying to collaborate closely with another teacher? How might you overcome these obstacles?
Adaptations/Extensions To Consider
Scale it back: Use less elaborate materials – ask children to paint round wooden plates or paper plates representing characters and themes in a novel.
Connect to your interests: Choose a different artist whose work speaks to you and share it with students as the model or inspiration their own creative work.
