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 How A4L Works
A4L Lessons addresses the learning needs of the whole child by developing the students’ ability to learn and process information as they work back and forth between arts and literacy tasks. Young Audiences trains participating teachers to deliver 16 hours of in-classroom instruction to students during the school day or in an extended-day format. Students spend time working through texts with the teacher and reinterpreting what they learn through hands-on group work. Outcomes are characterized by student driven learning, strengthened critical thinking skills, and highly engaged hands-on learning.
The second part of the program is a five-session residency led by a Young Audiences teaching artist or a school arts specialist that allows students to work individually in the residency’s art form—visual arts, drama, music, or dance. Students are given a chance to share their knowledge and artwork with peers, parents, and the community in a culminating presentation.
Each of the five A4L units provides a focus on specific literacy skills, literature styles, and art forms. A4L art forms include visual arts, drama, music, and dance; and A4L content aligns with the Georgia Performance Standards in Reading, Writing, and Fine Arts.
Scope of Units
- Unit 1: Upside-Down Fairytales (Drama — Tableau, Point of View and Story Elements)
- Unit 2: Graphic Story Adventures (Visual Arts — Graphic Novels, Visualization, Story Elements, Author’s Choice)
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Unit 3: Everyday Heroes
(Visual Arts — Collage, Determining Importance & Synthesizing)
- Unit 4: Planting a Community (Music— Inference, Text-to-Text Connections, Theme)
- Unit 5: Words in Motion (Dance — Poetry, Prosody, Vocabulary & Word Meaning)
Note: A4L Lessons is currently implementing Unit 3 only. All of the units will be available in the near future.
Unit Resources
- Unit Instruction
- Teacher’s Guide
- Student Notebook
- Texts and Supplies
Funding Options
- School systems and individual schools have used Title 1 funds
- PTAs have donated full or partial funding for their school
- Additional funding may be available for schools who make a commitment to implement the recommended Instructional Unit + Residency option
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