For the next two weeks, we will be reading the story, What Do Illustrators Do? by Eileen Christelow.  This story draws you into the life of an illustrator.  It explains the necessary steps to create illustrations for books.

These are the vocabulary words that the students will be responsible for learning.

imagine ~ see a picture in your mind

tools ~ things people use to help them do a job

illustrate ~ to make pictures that show something

scribbles ~ drawings or doodles, drawn in a quick or careless way

sketches ~ quick, simple drawings

tracing ~ copy the outline or shape of something

research ~ to search for and study information about a topic

textures ~ different ways that surfaces look and feel

 The comprehension skills that go along with this story are: