I plan to use arts to support English Language Development because art communicates throughout all cultures and languages. Since this is so important for ELL development, I would like to have students draw and create things every day. At the end of a journal entry, students can draw a picture. To help a student come up with a sentence, they could draw an image of their thoughts first. To learn about different cultures we can do some art and create items that the culture might make. For example, many Northeastern Native Americans made corn husk dolls which can be made in just a few simple steps with corn husks and water. Art like this can convey that the Northeastern Native American culture played with dolls and grew corn and were very creative. This can be an intro to learning about that culture. This can be done with any culture, including the ELL's culture. Also, art helps ELL's understand concepts better. For example, if I talk about tornadoes and have an image of a tornado, that student will better be able to put that word with the image and understand that we call those tornadoes. There are many reasons why we should incorporate art into the classroom, so let's do it!