Teacher directed and prescriptive, the Spark Curriculum is a literacy-based creative arts curriculum in which young children learn developmental and school readiness skills by actively attending to children's stories. Focusing on specific concepts in a variety of children books, teachers and children then participate in activities based on music, art, and drama that reinforce a simple theme or concept for the day -- like loud and soft, or big and small.The Spark Curriculum Guide will give teachers an overview of the Spark model as well as how implement and adapt the curriculum to their classroom.