Lesson Plan
Caption Illustration! Say It With A Drawing
Captions and illustrations come together and leap forth from your class as they relate to nonfiction texts.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to illustrate a picture and create a caption for it as it relates to a nonfiction text.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Describe a detailed nonfiction setting to your class.
- As you begin, have your students visualize your description.
- Have students draw an image and list a fact that they will use in a sentence. A sentence frame for students could be something like, “In this picture, there is an animal crate. People often keep their animals in them while they are away."
- Explain that such sentences are captions, brief explanations that provide detailed information about a picture.
- Have several students share their sentences to the class.
- Share the Learning Objective.
Beginning:
- Provide a word bank for students to use as they describe the nonfiction setting.
- Display the sentence frame, "In this picture, ____________."
Intermediate:
- Ask ELs to read aloud the learning objective to the class.
- Describe a nonfiction setting that is familiar to the students.