Lesson Plan
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Connecting Text and Illustrations
By analzying picture books, students will make connections between the text and the illustrations of a story. They will compare and contrast the text and the illustrations and reflect upon how they impact their comprehension of a text.
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Need extra help for EL students? Try the Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences pre-lesson.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to compare and contrast the text of a story with a visual presentation of a text.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Show students the illustration on the cover of a book with the text covered, like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and ask students to use the illustration to predict what the book might be about.
- Show students the title of the book with the illustration covered and ask students to use the title of the book to predict what the book might be about.
- Show students the book cover with both the title and the illustration visible and ask students to use both the title and the illustration to predict what the book might be about.
- Ask students to reflect on this experience. Ask the following questions:
- Was it easier to make predictions about the book using the text or the illustration?
- How did your predictions change when you looked at the text and the illustrations together?
- Explain that this activity helps us understand how the text and illustrations work together to help us understand more about what we are reading.
- Tell students that today they will practice making connections between the text of a story and the illustrations.
Beginning
- Allow students to make predictions with a partner using their home language (L1).
Intermediate
- Allow students to respond to the reflection questions with a partner before sharing with the whole class.