All About the Picture

Building academic language

Word

• Display the tier 2 Vocabulary Card and go over the definition by saying the word aloud and asking students to turn and talk to a partner to share what they think the word "picture" means.
• Have students share out their ideas with the group.
• Turn the card over and display the accompanying image. Read aloud the definition.
• Ask students to turn back to their partner and share in their own words what a picture is.
• Repeat this process with the tier 3 vocabulary words.

Sentence

• Read aloud the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
• As you read, pause and point to the different elements of the illustration and use a think aloud to demonstrate identifying the connections between the words and illustrations on each page. (e.g., "If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk, look—here he is asking for a glass of milk," etc.)

Discourse

• After reading the last page of the book, have the students turn and talk to a partner to share the connections they see between the illustrations and the words. Provide them with the sentence frame, "I think the picture shows ____ part of the story," to use in their conversation.