Use Visual Art to Increase Content Literacies

SKILL	Activity/Assessment Guides Assess when students work independently.
Ask and answer questions to analyze art	Art-Connected Questions Based on Bloom's Taxonomy
Communicate information in a variety of ways	I Can Show What I Know Grades PreK-1 I Can Show the Colors I Know Grades PreK-1 I Can Show That I Know Animals Grades PreK-1 My Pictures Show My Community
Communicate a theme in a drawing	Show a Theme in a Drawing Grades 2-9
Describe places with pictures	Mapping Your Block (PreK-2)
Explain/write to communicate ideas	Paraphrase a Painting
Identify/Interpret a situation	Idea Interpreter Model How to Map a Story or a History English / Spanish Grades 2-8 Portray History Using Portraits Show What Happened English / Spanish What's the Main Idea for Painting Visualize to Realize Grades 4-8 Story/History Reader English / Spanish Grades 4-8 The United States Then
Identify and communicate important information	Draw What You Hear English / Spanish In Early Chicago Read first paragraphs carefully Picture Culture Grades 3-8 Show to Tell English / Spanish Picture a Text Grades 3-5 Show and Tell What You Learned Story Illustrator
Make/support inferences	Show Inferential Thinking Grades 3-8 Read Animals Analytically and Inferentially
Interpret a variety of works	Analyze and INFER
Identify and support a main idea	Get It Together: Show What's Important Grades 3-8 Picture the Main Idea English / Spanish Grades 2-8 Make Interesting Idea-Example Connections
Locate information and use it to write about the topic	Show, Then Write What You Learn
Organize information to explain a topic	Plan a Picture Book or Bulletin Board Show and Tell Community History
Picture meaning	Picture Meaning English / Spanish Picture a Sentence Grades K-2 Read or Listen to any Story, or History, or News Report Story Illustrator Take Show and Tell into Representing Reading English / Spanish Grades K-2 Use Pictures As Pre-Writers English / Spanish Grades 2-5
Plan and create an illustration to communicate an idea	Illustration Planner Grades 3-8 Text to Picture to Text Idea Developer
Explain/write a poem/song	Paraphrase/Picture a Song, Poem English / Spanish Grades 3-8
Make predictions based on a situation	Model How to Map a Story or a History English / Spanish Grades 2-8 Show What Happened English / Spanish
Identify relationships	Picture a Situation English / Spanish Grades 3-8
Write and make a map to show important characteristics of a place	Show and Tell about a Place Grades 3-8
Synthesize information and ideas from different sources	Connect Portraits to People and Places and Time CONNECTIONS Art-Text-Ideas US History Painting Reader
Compare and contrast two different kinds of passages about the same topic or theme.	Compare a Common Theme (Grades 4-8)
Interpret a writer's use of words	Poem Reader English / Spanish Grades 3-8
Identify words that are important to a topic	Picture Word Bank English / Spanish Show and Tell What You Learned

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