Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Transitions Between Ideas
This tutorial teaches writing students how to share convincing in well-written sentences that are connected from one to the other--that is, they exhibit transition. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans
Other
Art Instruction Schools: Fundamentals of Art
Learn how Art Instruction Schools--a school for future illustrators--grounds its students in the fundamentals of art. Click through a series of illustrated lesson overviews on basic shapes, lines, tone and value, light source,...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Backyard With Clem
This Plum Landing activity from PBS Kids engages students in using imagination. Students will think about their environments and then write and or draw what visitors would see.
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: Shakespeare Pictures
Choose a play, then click to see paintings inspired by Shakespeare's work. Each includes quotations from the relevant scene.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: N. C. Wyeth: Cover Illustration [Pdf]
Analysis of N. C. Wyeth's cover illustration for a 1919 edition of "The Last of the Mohicans" examines Wyeth's approach to representing a major character from the novel.
Other
University of North Texas: Pop Up and Movable Books
A history of pop-up and moveable books with examples as early as the 18th century.
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: 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...
EL Education
El Education: River Calendar
Student of various ages work together to create an illustrated calendar of animals they observed and researched.
EL Education
El Education: Who We Are
An online book entitled Who We Are by kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri. The book contains an autobiographical description and illustration of each student as well as a photograph of a sculpture of the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Seasons of an Apple Tree
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a literature connection with The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons. This activity will engage the students in recalling details from the book to illustrate an apple tree...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Milton Glaser
Brief biographical note about the work of designer-illustrator Milton Glaser with links to examples of his work found in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Illustrative Transition Words
This lesson goes over illustration transition words and how they are used.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Introducing a Discursive Essay
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips relating to writing the introduction of a discursive essay. Five separate methods are described, including provocative, balanced, illustration,...
Curated OER
Plan 59: The Museum of Mid Century Illustration
An online museum of mid-twentieth-century illustration. See vintage images from the following categories: cars, wagons, trucks, food, old ads, and decor.
Curated OER
"The Sky Is Now Her Limit" Suffrage Illustration
"The Sky is Now Her Limit" suffrage illustration.