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- ISSN: 0360-9170
- E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Having an Experience in Five Acts: Multiple Literacies Through Young Children’s Opera
- Source: Language Arts, Volume 74, Issue 5, Sep 1997, p. 352 - 367
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- 01 Sep 1997
Abstract
Describes (in the form of an opera libretto in five acts) the experience of creating an opera in a first-grade bilingual classroom. Shows that literacy is not reading and writing, opera is not inaccessible, and art is not a frill. Finds that children made flexible use of sign systems and achieved some degree of bilingualism.
© 1997 by the National Council of Teachers of English