Illustration Unit

This is a four week illustration unit to help kindergarten/first grade writers become confident in their drawing and coloring skills. Primary students will learn how to draw with shapes and people with different facial expressions, hairstyles, and skin tones.

 This illustration study sets kindergarten students up for success for the rest of the year during writers workshop. Students can reference their directed drawing notebook throughout the year if they forget how to draw an object already taught.

 What's included:

• 4 weeks of lesson plans
• EDITABLE DAILY SLIDES WITH DIRECTED DRAWING VIDEOS POWERPOINT AND GOOGLE SLIDES NOW AVAILABLE
• Outline of unit teaching points
• Self portrait to practice different hairstyles, facial expression, and skin tones
• 28 easy directed drawings using ONLY SHAPES: girl, boy, house, school, park, car, bus, boat, truck, playground, firetruck, ice cream, bicycle, flower, dog, cat, pig, horse, fish, shark, dinosaur, lion, tiger, giraffe, sheep, apartment, townhouse, farm
• Four options of directed drawing formats: full page directed drawing, directed drawing with space at bottom to draw the picture, tracing and strips option
• Various rubric options
• Parent letters (pre and post unit)
• 10 Anchor Chart options: coloring checklist, hairstyle/faces, I can build a person, I can draw with shapes, I can draw warm clothes, I can draw cold clothes, I can draw accessories, craftsmanship, accurate vs creative colors, settings details, characters and settings
• Directed drawing labels for compositional notebook
• Hairstyles and Feelings mentor texts with real pictures
• Pattern block mats of each directed drawing object
• Dough mats for self portrait differentiated option
• Cut/paste option for directed drawing objects
• Certificate and hat for celebration
• Bulletin board display for published work
• Visual rubric of 5 star drawing

NOT READY FOR THE ILLUSTRATION UNIT, THIS SCRIBBLING UNIT IS PERFECT FOR THE BEGINNING OF PRESCHOOL OR KINDERGARTEN

 How to Use:

• Refer to daily lesson plans which contains materials and mentor texts that you will need.