ALEX Classroom Resource

Artistic Process: Responding

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Process Components: Perceive, Analyze, Interpret

EU: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.
EQ: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?

Artistic Process: Responding

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Process Components: Perceive, Analyze, Interpret

EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
EQ: What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?

R4.

• Digital tools
• Electronic tools
• Appropriately
• Safely
• Ethically
• Research
• Individually
• Collaboratively

R4. Students know:

• Digital and electronic tools must be used appropriately, safely, and ethically.
• Digital and electronic tools can be used for research or for writing tasks.
• Digital and electronic tools can be independently or with others.

R4. Students are able to:

• Engage in safe and ethical behavior when using digital and electronic tools individually and collaboratively.

R4. Students understand that:

• Safe behaviors, interactions that keep you out of harm's way, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools.
• Ethical behavior, interactions that align to one's moral code, are necessary when using digital and electronic tools.

23.

• Text features
• Locate
• Informational passage
• Identify

23a.

• Explain
• Text features
• Supporting details
• Text

23b.

• Explain
• Illustrations
• Contribute
• Meaning in a story

23c.

• Interpret
• Text features
• Written formats
• Digital formats

23. Students know:

• Informational passages often include text features that can be used to locate information within the text.

23a.

• Text features can provide additional or clarifying information about details in a text.

23b.

• Illustrations included with a story can contribute to the story's meaning.

23c.

• Text features can be used in printed (written) and digital text.

23. Students are able to:

• Identify text features in informational passages, such as headings, photographs, illustrations, labels, charts, graphs, legends.
• Use text features to locate information within an informational passage.

23a.

• Identify text features and explain how the text features supports details in a text.

23b.

• Identify an illustration and explain how it contributes to the meaning of the story.

23c.

• Interpret text features presented in a digital format.
• Interpret text features presented in a written format.

23. Students understand that:

• Informational passages have predictable features that can be used to locate important information within the text.
• Text features that are often used in informational text include headings, photographs, illustrations, labels, charts, graphs, and legends.
• Using text features helps support their overall comprehension.

23a.

• An author chooses to include text features to provide additional information, clarify information, or enhance ideas with in a text.
• Using text features supports their comprehension of details in a text.

23b.

• Authors and illustrators choose to include illustrations to enhance the meaning of the story provided in the text.

23c.

• Text features are often included in written (printed) text and digital text.
• In either format, text features can be used to locate information or enhance overall comprehension.