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Worksheet
Curated OER

Book Report Cover

For Students 2nd - 6th
In these book cover illustration worksheets, students fill in the title, author, and illustrator. Students then draw a picture of the cover of their book and explain what they like about it. Students then illustrate a new cover and then...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snap a Picture

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice using visualization to aid in their reading comprehension. While completing a read aloud of a selected poem, the instructor models visualizing images from the poem. Independently, students read a chapter from a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seeing is Understanding

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice visualizing elements from a story. They discuss the transition from picture books to chapter books. While reading a passage aloud, the instructor models what they see as they read the passage. Students draw a...
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Lesson Plan
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Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils identify that comprehension is an essential component or reading and in order to be efficient and fluent readers. They interpret what they have read through various strategies. Finally, students use one of the strategies,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Black ans White": Nineteenth Century Racism

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine Thomas Nast's illustration, "Black and White," looking for examples of racism. Contemporary stereotypes utilized to demonstrate the attitudes of people in the North and South in the 1800's are explored.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ink Blot Designs

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create an ink blot and examine it to find a shape that inspires a picture. They illustrate their picture with details and background design and color it in.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reflection with a Friend

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to story and respond with illustrations and comments.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Picture This

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, tools, and processes to communicate an idea or concept based on research, environment, personal experience, observation, or imagination.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Drawing -Scratchboard

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students choose subject of composition and do sketches in computer lab of flora and fauna contained within their environment.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: Cartoon Cornucopia: J. Arthur Wood, Jr., Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress offers a digitized collection of caricature, cartoon, and animated art. The collection is searchable and short histories of cartoonists, types of cartoons, and animation are included.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Activities: Dinosaur Picture Book

For Students 3rd - 6th
Learn who Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was, and how his art contributed to our understanding of dinosaurs.
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International Institute of Social History

International Institute of Social History: Art to the People th.a. Steinlen

For Students 9th - 10th
From the exhibit at the International Institute of Social History, "Art to the People", the work of the Swiss Socialist Illustrator Theophile Alexandre Steinlen is examined with descriptions and images of the graohically oriented work of...
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Article
Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the role of technology in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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National Library of France

National Library of France: Comics Before Comics

For Students 9th - 10th
A must for fans of comic books. Online exhibit examines the ancestors of comic books.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Illustration Planner [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th
Students will read a piece of nonfiction and then use their own copy of this reproducible sheet to plan a text-based illustration.
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Unit Plan
Other

Enjoying "Hamlet"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introduction to Shakespeare and "Hamlet." Includes introduction, scene by scene synopsis with elaborate illustrations. Also background information concerning historical Hamlet, Saxo Grammaticus. "Historia Danica," Belleforest's...
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Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Kids' Book Has Charges of Whitewashing Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Article presents a critical analysis of the depiction of slavery in the children's book, A Fine Dessert.
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Website
Crayola

Crayola: Big as Life Book Report (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a fun idea to display your students' book reports, and encourage reading at the same time! In this online lesson, children use special markers to actually draw their book report on the windows of the library or classroom. Also...
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Other

Delaware Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Specialties of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington are American painting, English Pre-Raphaelite art, and American illustration. Thumbnails with background information are available for each of the categories in the permanent collection.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries: Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive site focuses on the power of illustration in books. It discusses illustrations that inspire, inform, influence, and show a process; it provides examples and book references that use each.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Appropriate Appeals

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising essays so that they contain the appropriate appeals.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fashion Illustrations

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore more fashion illustrations of the early 20th century in this online art gallery of lithographs. Includes the work of noted French illustrator George Barbier.
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Princeton University

Cotsen Children's Library: Water Babies: Swimming in Picture Books

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about children's book illustration of swimming scenes in this on-line exhibit of relevant images from popular children's stories.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Create a Book (Grade 3 6)

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Students will illustrate and write their own story.