This unit of work involves 7 lessons that are creative and go into depth in inferring from the text. This is a creative unit if work which requires less writing and more hands-on, illustrative work. It mostly follows the plan from the CPLE Power of Reading planning for this book. It is a good unit of work to do when returning to school from a holiday break. Lesson 1 - Exploring the cover Lesson 2 - Exploring illustrations Lesson 3 - Understanding and emphathising with characters Lesson 4 - Tracking the emotional journey through text and illustration Lesson 5 - Understanding and illustrating characters Lesson 6 - Design the next page in the book Lesson 7 - Infer the characters’ feelings Each lessons comes in its own Powerpoint. The book can be accessed online via Youtube.

Suitable for all KS2. One Powrpoint document that can be used over a period of weeks for many art lessons based on portraits. explanation of a portrait famous examples of portraits Analysis questions of famous portraits Step by step guide to drawing part of the human face - proportions, eyes, nose, mouth, ears Body proportion

4 Lessons based on shadow work of Kumi Yamashita. Learning objectives include: Analyse the work of Kumi Yamashita Develop shadow skills and sketching skills Create art inspired by Kumi Yamashita Analyse my work Lessons include practical work with activities like getting mathematical 3D blocks out and torches/lights to create shadows.

Lesson 1: Analysis and looking at the work of Alice Bailly and Pablo Picasso. Info about the artists with key questions to answer based on their work. Comparison task. (For KS1, this can be done whole class and stuck into books. KS2 independent work) Lesson 2: Children explore cubism skills by understanding what cubism is and drawing a selection of random objects through a cubist lens. Lesson 3: Children explore wool painting and have an opportunity to explore different patterns and styles of wool painting. Lesson 4: Children create their own cubism self-portraits. They add a section of wool painting to the art.