CCSS.ELA – LITERACY.RL.K.3With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Through the visual literacy approach to understanding the story through images, students will be able to name who, where and what from the artists’ work.
CCSS.ELA – LITERACY.RL.K.6
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
With each illustrator study, students will be learning the name and creative style of each artist. Through the class discussions, students will understand who made the pictures and who wrote the story.
CCSS.ELA - LITERACY.RL.K.7With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
As the students progress through the various artists’ work, they will notice that each individual artist has a style and a medium that helps us recognize their work. The artists often work with an author to make the book together.
CCSS.ELA - LITERACY.RL.K.9With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
One of the illustrators, Jerry Pinkney, created a number of images or folk tales and fairy tales. Students will use these genres to discuss the similarities across stories and talk about the characters’ adventures.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
The culminating project requires students to apply their learning from the illustrator studies and create a book of their own, designing the images to go with the story. They will do this as a group project.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.3Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
By creating their own books, the students will be putting the story they choose to tell in sequence and show their understanding through the images they make for the retelling.