Lesson Plan
Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences
In this lesson, students will examine illustrations and write about them using declarative sentences. This can be used on its own or as support for the lesson A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Connecting Text and Illustrations.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Connecting Text and Illustrations lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Connecting Text and Illustrations lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to explain what is happening in a story illustration with declarative sentences using a graphic organizer.
Language
Students will be able to compare and contrast the text of a story with a visual presentation of a text.
Introduction
(3 minutes)- Flip through the pages of a picture book.
- Call on students to share what they like about reading picture books versus chapter books or books without illustrations.
- Tell students that the illustrations play a very important role in both our enjoyment of a book but also in our ability to understand a book.
- Explain to students that today they will look at illustrations from different picture books and answer questions about the information they communicate about the story and characters.