Lesson Plan
Captions for Illustrations
Use this lesson to help your ELs learn about the components that make a good caption for an illustration. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Caption Illustration! Say It With A Drawing* lesson.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Caption Illustration! Say It With A Drawing lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Caption Illustration! Say It With A Drawing lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to illustrate a picture and create a caption for it as it relates to a nonfiction text.
Language
Students will be able to explain illustrations with nouns and associated pronouns using sentence frames.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Ask students to think about the term used for the pictures and images they see in nonfiction texts, and talk to a partner about examples they have seen.
- Explain that illustrations are important features in nonfiction because they give more information about the text. The caption is the explanation about what the illustration shows.
- Share that, in today's lesson, students will explain illustrations by creating short captions.