Support your students when annotating their sketchbooks with these sentence starters. Areas covered include: Artist Research Pages Experimenting with Different Media Content Development Personal Response Reviewing Compositions This resource also includes some good examples of annotation in the black boxes. Click on my name above to see over 300 Art Teacher Resources.

This document includes a link to a list of artists, photographers and ceramicists listed by theme. Each artist name leads to a website or google search. This is an excellent, free resource for teachers and exam students. Themes include landscape, portraits, natural forms, death, altered books, animals in art, buildings, city-scapes, coastal scenes, close-ups, collage dance, everyday objects, family, identity, machinery and many more! This is an ever growing list!

Use this literacy mat to support writing about art. Simply ask your students to write a sentence about each of the categories e.g. line, tone/value, texture etc using the adjectives provided. This has been designed to work with any artwork. A good example is also included on the place-mat using a painting by Klimt. This 3-page download includes: An Art Literacy Mat for the UK A version for the USA (to account for different spellings) A lesson plan for how to use the mat. I always tell students that they don’t need to limit themselves to the words on the list, so this provides support for those who need it but also lets other students fly! This is also ideal for gallery education. www.TheArtyTeacher.com

Learning Objective: To practice careful observation and detailed drawing. Complete the detail on the blank half of the crab. There are three versions of this. A plain one, one with a title, and one with 8 spaces to add keywords. These keywords could describe the crab. This could fit into a mark making project or a natural forms project.

Every child should receive this presentation in KS3 or 4. It covers what composition is and looks at: Balance Contrast Focus Movement Pattern Rhythm Scale and Proportion Unity There is a script within the presentation which you should print off before presenting. The presentation is animated. There are 10 slides but because of the animation students will look at 24 works of art. Click on my name above to see over 300 Art Resources in my shop.

There are two versions of this Pointillism worksheet. The three eyes at the top of the page are good examples of what you want your students to create. Both worksheets ask students to create a scale of tone using dots. The first then asks students to draw and use pointillism to create an eye. The second, easier worksheet, asks students to add dots over a very faint image of an eye. This could fit into a pointillism scheme of work (perhaps when looking at Seurat) or be useful as a homework or cover lesson. Keywords: Pointillism, Drawing, Seurat, Tone, Mark Making, Drawing Eyes.

Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised I’ve updated my ‘Blooms Taxonomy for Art’ and ‘Blooms Taxonomy Question Cards’ and bundled them together. With this resource you receive: Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised (pictured right) Blooms Question Cards Lesson Plan for Question Cards They both now include the headings: Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Simply print and laminate the questions cards so you can use them again and again. You can even hole punch the corner for easy storage. The lesson plan details a group questioning activity to stimulate discussion which can be used with any artwork so this lesson can integrate into any project. There are versions for the UK & US with the different spellings of analysing and colour.

A useful art resource to support students annotating their own work. It is complete with sentence starters and a good example.

This assembly provides your students with strategies to think more positively. It gives a metaphor that positivity is like a huge jar of nutella, and they can dip their finger in whenever they wish to pull out some positivity! It covers the following strategies: Smiling and Laughter practicing Gratitude Positive Affirmations Avoiding Negative People Doing something kind Music Exercise. It’s a fun assembly that uses humor and facts to convey it’s message. I got lots of positive feed back from students and staff after delivering this assembly! Approx 15 - 20 mins long depending on your speed. It includes a poem that you could take out if you wished to shorten it. Also included are a Positive Thinking Poster, and come Positive Thinking Nutella jars to laminate and stick around your school to remind people to ‘Think Positive’. (Staff Included!)

This colour schemes art lesson asks your students to colour the patterned circles using harmonious or analogous, complementary and monochromatic colours. There are versions for the US and the UK with the different spellings of colour/color and the different use of harmonious/analogous. With this download you receive: The one-page resource pictured above. A colour wheel (One on a page) A color wheel (Two on a page)

Don't you find that when you are marking compositions that you are writing the same thing again and again? These stickers address that problem! This set of stickers includes each type of error students make both as a target and as a Question. (I know that in some schools like mine, you have to mark with a question!) Targets and Questions include: annotation, identifying students best design, colour, contrast/tone, links to artists, quality of drawing, and using the space on the page well. These stickers are made to go on Avery L7163 or stickers that are 99.1mm x 38.1mm. In my shop I also have a set of stickers for marking a drawing. Click on my name above to go to my shop. Happy and Speedy Marking

This presentation and lesson plan combine to make a superb cross-curricular art/music lesson. View the presentation with your students to look at mark making in figurative and abstract artworks. The presentation includes a script with questioning. Then complete marking making to music with your students. The lesson plan includes a starter (which is the presentation), demonstration, development, plenary and 4 suggested homework tasks. This would fill a lesson which is 50mins - 1hr. Just add music!

A super useful resource to support students when they annotate an artists work.

This is a really useful drawing resource as it teaching your student essential drawing skills. Ideal for Close-up and/or Natural Forms projects. Cut down on marking as this one sheet could be used for 3 homework’s. Or do this in class and use 3 different media. www.TheArtyTeacher.com

Two ideal first day activities to use when you meet your new class. Get to know all about them and their favourite things.

Students create tone using a variety of different mark making techniques. Great to incorporate into your schemes of work or to use as a cover lesson or homework task. Click on 'View as part of Bundle' to see my Mark Making Bundle!

Use the ‘Talking About Art’ placemat as a stimulus when asking your students to talk about art. The attached lesson starter document explains how to use the placemat for a starter activity, where you divide your class into groups and give them time to discuss the sentence starters, and then you ask for feedback. I have also provided a blank ‘Talking About Art’ worksheet should you want a written response. A really useful starter that could be used with any artist or artwork. Art literacy. www.TheArtyTeacher.com

A great art cover or sub lesson. Students think creatively and turn the circles into different drawings on this one page resource. Includes lesson plan which has full instructions and an extension idea.

Encourage beautiful drawing with this converse grid drawing. Ideal as part of any drawing module or this would make an excellent homework or cover lesson to improve drawing skills. It comes with two lesson plans which are exactly the same apart from one is titled 'Cover Lesson' and one is titled 'Sub Lesson'.

This excellent one-page worksheet allows your students to look at the mark making in Van Gogh’s drawings. Stick and ink works particularly well with this resource or you could use pencil, pen, pastels or little marks made with brushes.