The Art of Illustrating

Content Objectives

Students will:

• Learn about the concept of illustrating.
• Access prior knowledge and build background about illustrating.
• Explore and apply understanding of the concept of illustration.

Language Objectives

Students will:

• Demonstrate an understanding of illustration.
• Orally use words that identify different tools used by illustrators.
• Extend oral vocabulary by discussing the process of illustration.
• Use key concept words [picture book, author, illustrator, illustrations, draw, paint, pencil].

Other

Explain

• Use the slideshow to review the key concept words.
• Explain that students are going to learn about the art of illustrating:
• An illustrator makes the pictures that show the action in a story.
• Illustrations help to tell a story and are fun to look at.
• Illustrators use many tools to make their illustrations.
• Sometimes illustrators draw things they see in real life.

Model

• After the host introduces the slideshow, point to the photo on screen. Ask students: What kind of book is the student reading in this photograph? (a picture book).
• Ask students: Who makes the pictures in a picture book? (an illustrator).
• Say: Illustrators can use many tools to make the pictures that help to tell a story. Think about a story that you would like to write. What would your illustrations look like? (answers will vary).

Guided Practice

• Guide students through the next three slides, showing them different ways to illustrate. Always have the students discuss their favorite way of illustrating.

Apply

• Play the games that follow. Have them discuss with their partner the different topics that appear during the Talk About It feature.
• After the first game, ask students to discuss their favorite way to make pictures. After the second game, have them describe a story they would like to tell in a picture book of their own.

Close

• Ask students: How do illustrators help authors to tell their stories?
• Summarize for students that sometimes a picture can tell an entire story. Encourage them to draw a picture that tells a story, but they can't use any words.