In order to complete all 26 uppercase letters, some students may need to do more than one letter.Ħ. piece of paper with the outline of an uppercase letter of the alphabet drawn on the paper. Place newspaper on the desks and give each student an 8 1/2 x 11 in. Ask students the following questions: What colors do you see? Do you see shiny areas? What materials do you think the artists used to make those areas shiny and reflective? Do you see different hues in the same color family, such as light green and dark green? Is it difficult or easy to see the alphabet letter when a design is part of the letter? How do art, writing, and reading all come together in these books? Do you think this is this more like a painting or more like a book? Why? What does an author do? What does an illustrator do? How do you know? Can the author and an illustrator of a book be the same person? What makes you say this? What is your evidence? Encourage students to speak in complete, coherent sentences.ĥ. Using the new vocabulary, have a discussion with the students about what they see. Show images from the Getty Museum of decorated letters from the illuminated manuscripts collection. ![]() Introduce the following vocabulary: illuminate, manuscript, handmade, hue, reflective, texture, design, collage, author, and illustrator.Ĥ. Have the students color their photocopied letters, focusing on primary colors (red, blue, and yellow).ģ. Use the colored page of the book to show students examples of decorated letters. Using the Plant and Animal Alphabet Coloring Book, photocopy one or two letters or a complete alphabet for each student using the black and white pages as a blackline master.Ģ. Glue, newspaper, pencils, crayons, or colored pencilsġ. pieces of paper with sentence starters printed on them-one for each letter of the alphabet ![]() Small torn pieces of the following types of paper, both solids and patterns: tin foil, gold tissue paper, and vellum paper Uppercase letters of the alphabet drawn in outline form on 8 1/2 x 11 in. A Medieval Alphabet to Illuminate, Bellerophon Books, Santa Barbara, CA. Plant and Animal Alphabet Coloring Book by Leslie Tillett, Dover Publications, Inc., NY. use descriptive words and good penmanship to create a sentence describing the animal or object they have illustrated for their assigned letter. ![]() use line and color to draw an animal or object whose name begins with a given letter of the alphabet. use shape, texture, and color to decorate an uppercase letter. Students decorate large uppercase letters of the alphabet and draw an original picture to illustrate each letter. The book is in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript and incorporates both art and writing. Students create a class alphabet book or "ABCDarium," a book that uses images of animals or objects to illustrate each letter of the alphabet. Illuminated Letter S, Jung Seo, Clover Avenue Elementary School, Los Angeles
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