The Art Box By: Gail Gibbons

Book Title: The Art Box

Author: Gail Gibbons

Illustrator: Gail Gibbons

Genre:Nonfiction

Summary: This book lists and labels many different kinds of art tools and what they are used for.

ELA Content Standard 1:Kindergarten, Craft and Structure #5- Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

How it Connects:Students can explore this book as a physical book before going deeper into the content to understand the basic necessities of navigating the pages and who created this book they are about to read

ELA Content Standard 2: Kindergarten, Integration of Knowledge and Ideas #7- With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

How it Connects:Students can read the labels next to the drawings of each new word and object

3 Tiers of  Vocab: 1)box 2) drawing 3) protractor

How Children Use Book: Dyslexic students can use this book to clearly see the word and the picture of the word side by side

Meets Needs: SPED can use this for artistic styles of learning/comprehension and expression of understanding through creativity