The value of arts integration:

Arts integration brings focus to the child. It engages learners and offers a variety of ways to construct and demonstrate understanding. Arts helps learners to develop creative problem solving skills, language skills, social skills and inventiveness. The arts provide challenges for learners at all levels and boosts critical thinking. It supports academic achievement and socialisation among learners. It provides teachers with the opportunity to promote and support the developmental needs of learners. Certain forms of arts instruction enhance and complement reading instruction aimed at helping children. Arts integration helps children with story understanding and ability to read new materials. Learners engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area.