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  • Willa Cather Elementary School
  • Chicago, IL
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My students love to create art projects. With language and communication being one of their common barriers to standards-based learning, the imaginative process of creating promotes their ability to express themselves using materials that are both colorful and sensory. Craft projects provide ample opportunities for my students to work on Fine Motor skills such as cutting, writing, drawing, pinching, and fastening. They also provide opportunities to promote meaningful communicative exchanges when paired with visual aids such as PECS boards to ask and answer questions regarding their work! For example, "What did you make?", "What color would you like to use next?", "Tell me a story about your creation!". Because students so greatly enjoy the creative process, I believe it is important to lean in to their imaginative strengths and use them to draw out other forms of meaningful, contextual learning!

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My students love to create art projects. With language and communication being one of their common barriers to standards-based learning, the imaginative process of creating promotes their ability to express themselves using materials that are both colorful and sensory. Craft projects provide ample opportunities for my students to work on Fine Motor skills such as cutting, writing, drawing, pinching, and fastening. They also provide opportunities to promote meaningful communicative exchanges when paired with visual aids such as PECS boards to ask and answer questions regarding their work! For example, "What did you make?", "What color would you like to use next?", "Tell me a story about your creation!". Because students so greatly enjoy the creative process, I believe it is important to lean in to their imaginative strengths and use them to draw out other forms of meaningful, contextual learning!

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