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]
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...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Verbals on Visuals
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...
Arizona State University
Arizona State Univ.: The Art of Illustrator Eric Carle
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Serendipitous Crazy Illustrations
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...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
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.
University of Calgary
The Children's Literature Web Guide
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
Other
Uwm Libraries: Traditions and Interpretations
An in-depth look at John Milton's Paradise Lost. Contains many illustrations and interpretations of the text, and includes its publishing history.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: William John Swainson
Find out about William John Swainson, who created prolific illustrative works of natural history.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Charles Dickens
Explore the life and work of Charles Dickens through this educational resource.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Eric Carle Biography
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Sharing With Illustrations Word Problems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice solving division word problems using illustrations.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Barbara Cooney
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.
Other
Education Galaxy: Topic, Illustrations and Predictions
Practice making predictions about an informational text by looking at the title and pictures. Play in study or game mode.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Use Pictures to Divide Two Digits by One Digit With Remainders
[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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Pictures Can Tell the Story
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Look at Me!
Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Imagine Imagery
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.
Other
Isaac Asimov's Foundations Universe
This site offers art work centered around the futuristic world created by Asimov (1920-1992 CE) and continued by several other sci-fi writers.
EL Education
El Education: Black Holes: What Are They?
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...
EL Education
El Education: A Is for a Bomb
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...
EL Education
El Education: Dwarf Dwelling
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...
EL Education
El Education: Economics Illustrated
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...
EL Education
El Education: Ever Wonder Why?
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...