This reading comprehension activity, ‘A Carousel of Dreams’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about a new carousel in New York City.
This black and white outline illustration, “Drawing B&W” is available in PNG format at 300 DPI resolution with a transparent background for classroom use. This illustration is also available in colour. Lesson Zone has over 4, 000 pieces of clip art, searchable by learning area and theme. The clip art is fast and easy to …More
This profile, ‘Emily Carr’, features important factual background information about this famous Canadian artist. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical and cultural awareness in an engaging manner, and could be used a prompt for further discussion or study about Canada.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Impressionists’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about an excursion to an art gallery. It provides a practical example for students of how to deconstruct a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, then put this together with what they already know …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘John Folinsbee’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about a painter who overcame disability to excel at his craft. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘John James Audubon’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text the famous artist. It is aimed at encouraging students to draw conclusions about what they have read and to recall specific details from the text as well as form opinions about the text as a whole in …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Squiggle Art’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about an excursion to art museum.
This informational text, ‘The Life of Leonardo da Vinci’ provides a brief summary about Leonardo da Vinci and the simple machines he had to understand before he could be innovative.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Two Abstract Expressionists’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.