Students will practice their speaking skills while describing a landscape scene for a partner to draw.

Students discover how visual artists represent a story by depicting a single moment from it.

Students will make connections between their personal experiences and a work of art and use visual analysis to describe a portrait.

Students will "read" a visual image very much like they would read words in a story.

Students will spend more time looking at details and write an imagined interview with a sitter.

This is VDOE Webinar, Navigation Resource Lists for Teaching ELs Online, was recorded on September 21. 2020.

This is VDOE Webinar, Online Learning for ELs: Strategy and Resource Share, recorded APril, 6, 2020.

This is VDOE Webinar, Paradigm Shift: Engaging EL Parents in a Virtual Environment, recorded on June 8, 2020.

This lesson focuses on a family depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and families. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using possessive adjectives. Students are challenged to infer what the relationships are between figures depicted and what individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

This lesson focuses on people at work depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and work. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using job-related vocabulary and adjectives to describe feelings. Students are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

This lesson focuses on different exterior spaces depicted in works of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea. Activities in this section teach students about some of the elements of art (color and line), adjectives, and two kinds of sentences (declarative and imperative).

This lesson focuses on exterior spaces depicted in works of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and time of day. Activities in this section teach students about some of the elements of art (color and line) and about writing descriptions of the weather and time of day.

This is a VDOE Webinar; ACCESS for ELs: Preparing and Motivating ELs During Instruction, recorded on December 14, 2020.

Dr. Angela Ammerman shares rehearsal strategies specifically geared toward English Learners (ELs). Learn about resources and strategies to provide language support and engage English Learners in the music classroom. 

Learning Objectives:Students will research what to do in case of an emergency, namely a hurricane. Students will develop vocabulary.

 This is a VDOE webinar entitled "For Students By Students"; recorded on April 14th 2021.