Puppet Don’t Have Legs! Dinosaurs have digits! Using the dramatic and media arts to deepen knowledge across content areas.

Authors

  • Vetta Vratulis Saginaw Valley State University
  • Kari-Lynn Winters Brock University

Abstract

The dramatic and media arts afford opportunities for students to respond to children’s literature in new and innovative ways, encouraging spaces of co-authorship and multimodal texts. Drawing upon the fields of New Literacy Studies, multimodality and democratic authorship, the purpose of this project is to compare how grade four-seven students from two North American countries use the dramatic and media arts to co-author responses to literature (fiction/nonfiction texts), and to explore how these responses affect students’ literary and content area learning.

 

Author Biographies

Vetta Vratulis, Saginaw Valley State University

Dr. Vetta Vratulis is an assistant professor at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, MI. Her current research interests include digital literacy, interdisciplinary reading and writing practices, social dominance theory, & social negotiations & multimodal communications in digital and print spaces.

Kari-Lynn Winters, Brock University

Dr. Kari-Lynn Winters is an award winning author, playwright, presenter and academic scholar. Kari-Lynn is also an assistant professor at Brock University in St. Catherine’s, ON. Her research interests include: drama in education, children’s literature, and multimodal forms of learning. More information about Kari-Lynn Winters can be found at her website: www.kariwinters.com

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Published

2013-09-10

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2013)

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