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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Utiliza El Demuestra Y Cuenta Para Representar [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students will use this graphic organizer to show their understanding of what they have read. Afterward, students will share the illustrations with their peers and explain how their pictures connect to the text. The directions for this...
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Lesson Plan
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Verbals on Visuals

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This task is to produce a picture book based on relationships. This will aim to combine verbal and visual features to produce a text for a year 7/8 class. Assessment will involve the identification and use of the illustrations, use of...
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Lesson Plan
Arizona State University

Arizona State Univ.: The Art of Illustrator Eric Carle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site from the Arizona State University contains a lesson plan for first grade art or reading teachers. Introduces students to the concept of "Warm and cool colors." Students use the art of Eric Carle as inspiration to create their...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Crazy Illustrations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan, Flotsam, written by David Wiesner, is used as a mentor text. Students will analyze the author's use of crazy illustrations and word choices. Students will then use a game on this web site where they will click to...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore this informative teachers' guide for the book, "The Garden of Abdul Gasazi," by Chris Van Allsburg. Students and teachers will enjoy this comprehensive source.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
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University of Calgary

The Children's Literature Web Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
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Other

Uwm Libraries: Traditions and Interpretations

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at John Milton's Paradise Lost. Contains many illustrations and interpretations of the text, and includes its publishing history.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: William John Swainson

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about William John Swainson, who created prolific illustrative works of natural history.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.
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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Eric Carle Biography

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about your favorite children's author, Eric Carle, when you visit this biography. Students and teachers will gain a new perspective of this author's life and work.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Sharing With Illustrations Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice solving division word problems using illustrations.
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Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Barbara Cooney

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site contains a biography of Barbara Cooney, and a summary of each of her picture books. Pictures of each of her books are provided.
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Other

Education Galaxy: Topic, Illustrations and Predictions

For Students K - 1st Standards
Practice making predictions about an informational text by looking at the title and pictures. Play in study or game mode.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Use Pictures to Divide Two Digits by One Digit With Remainders

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This is a practice quiz in which students use pictures to solve division problems with remainders.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pictures Can Tell the Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The students will develop independent reading skills by using the illustrations. The teacher will read a selection of books and ask students to tell what they see in the book. Comments will lead to the conclusion that pictures tell us...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Look at Me!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Imagine Imagery

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will dive into the word "imagery," learning what it means and using what they learn to describe a color using all 5 senses.
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Other

Isaac Asimov's Foundations Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers art work centered around the futuristic world created by Asimov (1920-1992 CE) and continued by several other sci-fi writers.
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EL Education

El Education: Black Holes: What Are They?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a children's book created by two freshman students during at High Tech High. For this project, the students selected, researched, and wrote an essay on a topic related to astronomy. Then using the information in their essay, they...
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EL Education

El Education: A Is for a Bomb

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A is for 4 A-Bomb was written and illustrated by a sophomore student at West Platte High School. The student created this project as part of a world history investigation on the atomic bomb. After researching the impact of the bombs and...
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EL Education

El Education: Dwarf Dwelling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A student from a 5th/6th grade classroom in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, created this illustration of a dwarf dwelling as part of a Learning expedition on architecture. The task given to students was to create a prehistoric cave home in...
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EL Education

El Education: Economics Illustrated

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This book was created by tenth grade students in San Diego, California. It combines student descriptions of economic terms and concepts with original student art that illustrates them. Students were supported by social studies and art...
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EL Education

El Education: Ever Wonder Why?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students from the Greece Central School District in New York created this bilingual Pourquoi storybook. This collaborative project was written by students in third grade, then translated into Spanish, illustrated and marketed by high...