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Framework for Planning a Unit of Study

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"In a preplanned unit, students are recipients of curriculum. In a unit of study, students are active cocreators of curriculum."

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"In a preplanned unit, students are recipients of curriculum. In a unit of study, students are active cocreators of curriculum."

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- Katie Wood Ray, In Pictures and In Words (pg 79)

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Taking on a "Teaching into Illustrations" Stance

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Taking on a "Teaching into Illustrations" Stance

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In opposition of "Teaching out of Illustrations" stance which encourages students to spend less time on illustrations, to forego the use of color, to sketch an idea, and to focus primarily on getting words down on paper

Teachers see illustrating as a composition.

Encourage students to linger longer with illustrations, to make meaning with color and other media, and to extend what the words say with intentional illustrations.

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The Curriculum of Time- Stamina

"With blank paper in front of them, students have to learn how to make something out of nothing, and they must learn to come back the next day and do it again."

Children must learn to intend their own acts.

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Why teach illustration study?

Because it takes some time for children to become fluent and proficient with transcription (getting words down on paper), being able to represent meaning in illustrations makes so much more possible for beginning writers.

Image is, in a way, a universal language.

Because young children are surrounded by picture books at school, it makes sense that their writing should match the kind of texts they know best.

When they see themselves as people who make picture books, young children notice and pick up ideas for writing and illustrating from the books adults read to them.

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Model for students how easily you can take something you've noticed in an illustration and imagine doing it yourself with a different topic

Model by showing how a particular illustration technique can be used in a book one of your students is currently making at that time

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Before writing within a new genre, good writers read as many examples as they can to understand what is expected of them when writing within that particular genre

Translation- Use Mentor Texts!!!

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Help students with the ability to understand that all texts are a product of another writer's decision making

Reading-Writing Connection!

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The more possibilities children know and understand, the more decisions they can make about how their books might go and the more complex their composing process will become

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(verb)

1. to make something by combining together

2. to put things together to form a whole

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Although the symbols- words and images- are different, writers and illustrators really do the same kinds of thinking and decision making

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Geared towards teachers of young writers, but could be applied to both elementary and upper grades

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Photo Credit

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To help teachers understand how to talk about illustrations in ways that will support students' growing understandings about writing

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- Section 1: Illustration study as a foundation for strong writing (87 pgs)

- Section 2: Fifty Illustration techniques categorized by qualities of good writing [ideas and content, precision and detail, wholeness of text, tone, and layout and design]

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There is no need to teach "the writing process" because there is not just one process... it looks different for every writer

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“Illustrators make meaning with pictures, and writers make meaning with words, but both make meaning, and rich curriculum lies in understanding all the ways their decisions intersect.”

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“Illustrators make meaning with pictures, and writers make meaning with words, but both make meaning, and rich curriculum lies in understanding all the ways their decisions intersect.”

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- Katie Wood Ray, In Pictures and In Words (pg 72)

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“Text- whether it’s composed with words or pictures or both- doesn’t just happen by accident.  Text happens because someone makes it happen and decides it should be that way, and all the making and deciding is the essence of process.”

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“Text- whether it’s composed with words or pictures or both- doesn’t just happen by accident.  Text happens because someone makes it happen and decides it should be that way, and all the making and deciding is the essence of process.”

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- Katie Wood Ray, In Pictures and In Words (pg 43)

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“Writing is the act of motion. Writing is the commitment to move forward, not to stew in our juices, to become whatever it is we are becoming.  Writing is both the boat and the wind in the sails.  Even on the days when the winds of inspiration seem slight, there is some forward motion, some progress made.”

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“Writing is the act of motion. Writing is the commitment to move forward, not to stew in our juices, to become whatever it is we are becoming.  Writing is both the boat and the wind in the sails.  Even on the days when the winds of inspiration seem slight, there is some forward motion, some progress made.”

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- Julia Cameron, The Writer’s Life (2001, 96)