Multi-sensory Expression
Students learn literacy concepts such as settings, characters, dialogue, and plot through physicalizing, visualizing, and vocalizing stories.
The languages of the arts are more immediately accessible to children for expressing complex thinking than words. Most young children can communicate at a much higher level of cognition in art forms than they can in words.
Students can be playful in learning to express with materials and body movements in a way they can’t with words.
Students can observe and recognize communications in body gestures, movement, sounds, and visual representation than they can recognize the use of words.
Concepts for Educators
- Awareness: Literate communication happens through the body, voice and visual art making
- Skills: Notice, describe, and prompt physical and visual exploration that is varied, specific, and expressive; create a structure for safe physical exploration; create and sustain an imaginative space; concepts; students can learn and express much more with bodies, voice, and art materials than they can through words alone
- Children can better understand complex concepts and stories if they are immersed and participating kinesthetically and aesthetically
- Introduce new idea and stories through multi-sensory art forms rather than through words alone
- Expression through on-verbal art forms is literate communication, which can scaffold to verbal expression
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