The experience of joy and shared joyful moments benefits children’s learning, development and wellbeing. The arts engage the senses, imagination and creativity in meaning making and expression of ideas. Learning through the arts is often collaborative and embodied. This paper reports on a study which explored the use of arts-based practices in teaching writing with children mostly aged seven to nine years. Teachers intentionally adopted arts-based practices to reconnect with active, embodied and creative ways of exploring content and connect multiple ways of meaning making for children. This research affirmed that children benefitted from intentionally adopting arts-based practices to help facilitate student’s writing.

快乐的体验和分享的快乐时刻有利于孩子的学习、发展和福祉。艺术将感官、想象力和创造力用于意义建构和思想表达。通过艺术学习通常是协作和体现的。本文报告了一项研究，该研究探讨了在主要 7 至 9 岁儿童中采用基于艺术的实践来教授写作。教师有意识地采用基于艺术的实践，以积极、具体和创造性的方式重新连接探索内容的方式，并为儿童连接意义创造的多种方式。这项研究证实，有意识地采用基于艺术的实践来帮助促进学生的写作，孩子们会从中受益。