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Unit 2 Lesson 7 - What Do Illustrators Do?

Picture
(click the picture to read the story)
Written and Illustrated by Eileen Christelow 
Genre: Informational Text
Target Skill: Text and Graphic Features - tell how words and art work together
Target Strategy:  Analyze/Evaulate - think about what you read and form an opinion about it
Essential Question: How do pictures tell you a story? 
Big Idea: We communicate in many ways.

Guided Reading
Making Murals
Artists All Around You
Art in Caves
Artists Are Everywhere 

Social Studies Connection

Eric Carle
Spelling Words and Phonics Activities for the Week 

Three Letter Clusters scr-, spr-, str-, thr-
Spelling Cards
cursive spelling Practice
Picture
Spelling and Vocabulary Games
Vocabulary  Strategy:
Synonyms
Vocabulary Cards
Picture
Grammar
Verb Tenses
 
-Present Tense: verbs in the present tense either have an -s ending with a singular subject or do not have -s ending with a plural subject.  
-Past Tense: verbs in the past tense have an -ed ending to show past time.  
-Future Tense: verbs in the future tense use the helping verb will  
       ex. An illustrator creates pictures. Present
                 Illustrators create pictures.  Present
                 An illustrator created pictures yesterday
                 Past
                 The illustrator will create a picture for the new 
                 story.    Future
Verb tenses 
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”  Yoda