Students will explore the question "How do pictures help tell a story?" In the informational text selection What Do Illustrators Do? We'll read about the methods and skills illustrators use to make stories come alive.

Home Connection Activities!

Create a Sketchbook Work with your child to create a scrapbook to describe a day in his or her life. You can use drawings or actual items. For example, you can either draw a picture of a move stub or attach the stub itself. Help your child write captions for each item.

Vocabulary on the Go Ask your child to create quick sketches that can be labeled with this week's Target vocabulary words.

scribbles, sketches, research, textures, tools, illustrate, imagine, tracing

In my Opinion - Ask your child to select a book he or she has recently read. Have your child write a short review of the book. Encourage your child to include his or her opinion of the book.

GENRE

In a Informational Text, gives facts about a topic. As you read, look for:

• details that support facts

• the way information is organized

• illustrations that help explain a topic