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Bring it to Life
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Includes printable resources
The teacher and students make inferences about the subjects of artworks by acting out roles and interviewing each other.
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Color Me Happy
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Using portraits as a guide, we talk about how some artists use color and symbols to show characters' moods.
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Inferring Feelings
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Students infer what the subject of a portrait might be feeling based on their observations.
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Past or Present?
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Students infer details about how, when, and why an artwork was made.
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Setting the Scene
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2In this activity, we use landscapes as a way to launch into inferences about setting.
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Tales of Travel
Focus Skill: inferences
Grade Level: K-2Starting from artworks that depict scenes of travel, students make inferences about setting and point of view.