What Do Illustrators Do?
by Eileen Christelow
Genre: Informational Text - gives you facts about a topic
Reading Skill: Sequence of Events and Text and Graphic Features
Strategy: Analyze/Evaluate
Essential Question: How do pictures help to tell a story?
Student Objectives:
Use text features to locate information in an informational text.
Use information from graphic features to demonstrate understanding.
Analyze and evaluate the content of an informational text.
Vocabulary
imagine: to see a picture in your mind
tools: things people use to help them do a job
illustrate: to make pictures that show or explain something
scribbles: drawings or doodles, drawn in a quick or careless way
sketches: quick drawings without much detail
tracing: used to copy or trace lines
research: careful study of a subject or problem
textures: the ways that surfaces look and feel