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Artful Weather Reports
Focus Skill: compare and contrast
Grade Level: K-2Students compare and contrast the weather in multiple artworks.
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Bring it to Life
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Includes printable resources
The teacher and students make inferences about the subjects of artworks by acting out roles and interviewing each other.
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Color Me Happy
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Using portraits as a guide, we talk about how some artists use color and symbols to show characters' moods.
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Comparing Portraits
Focus Skill: compare and contrast
Grade Level: K-2Includes printable resources
Using a graphic organizer, students compare and contrast what subjects in portraits are thinking and feeling.
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Fact and Opinion Shuffle
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2Students work as a group to write and sort facts and opinions.
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Fact and Opinion Conversation
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2An informal conversation about an artwork can be a great way for students to share their opinions about a work of art.
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Facts First!
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2After comparing and contrasting facts about stories or artwork, we discuss which one we like better.
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Facts and Opinions T-Chart
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2The class brainstorms facts and opinions about an artwork.
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Highlighting Facts and Opinions
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2Students highlight fact and opinion statements in different colors.
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Inferring Feelings
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Students infer what the subject of a portrait might be feeling based on their observations.
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Matching Facts and Opinions
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2The class makes a game of matching facts of an artwork with related opinions.
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It’s Not Just “Pretty”
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2Includes printable resources
Discuss and practice using art words when stating your opinion about artworks.
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Observe, Respond, Reveal
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2Students write three paragraphs about facts and opinions of an artwork.
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Past or Present?
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Students infer details about how, when, and why an artwork was made.
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Setting the Scene
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2In this activity, we use landscapes as a way to launch into inferences about setting.
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Sorting Out the Facts
Focus Skill: fact and opinion
Grade Level: K-2Students sort sentence strips by whether they are facts or opinions.
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Tales of Travel
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Starting from artworks that depict scenes of travel, students make inferences about setting and point of view.
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Visual Thinking Strategies
Focus Skill: responding
Grade Level: K-2Visual Thinking Strategies, or VTS, is consistently used throughout Words & Pictures classroom lessons and museum visits. VTS is a facilitated conversation about a work of art that uses open-ended questions.