Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts

Sponsored by the International Reading Association

The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, a comprehensive overview of research on this topic, extends conceptualizations of literacy to include all of the communicative arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing) and the visual arts of drama, dance, film, art, video, and computer technology.

concludes that if television displaces as little as 15 minutes per day of homework,
its negative impact on school ... curvilinear relationship between time spent with
television and several measures of reading comprehension and vocabulary. ... a
similar argument for IQ, citing two investigations that controlled for intelligence,
and found a negative relationship between reading ... Toward Explanation of
Relationships If displacement alone is not the mechanism that explains the
negative ...