Exploring Your Skill Activities
Exploring Your Skill Activities
Your subscription to Scholastic Art comes with powerful teaching resources, including skill-building activity sheets. These activities build art knowledge and English Language Arts skills.
Here’s where you can download all skills sheets for the entire issue:
Types of Skills Sheets:
Types of Skills Sheets:
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Each issue of Scholastic Art includes a reading comprehension quiz for grades 7-12. You may access this skills sheet as an interactive multiple-choice Google quiz or a PDF.
Reading Review Questions
Reading Review Questions
Each issue of Scholastic Art includes reading comprehension summary questions for grades 7-12 and grades 4-6. You may access this skills sheet as an interactive Google Form or a PDF. For students in grades 7-12, there are 10 review questions and for students in grades 4-6 there are 5.
Debate
Debate
The Debate skills sheet asks students to evaluate both sides of the debate featured in Scholastic Art and then articulate which side of the debate they support.
Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers
Scholastic Art issues include graphic organizers for feature articles, which provide students with different ways to organize important content from an article.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
There is also a compiled list of all the new art vocabulary words and definitions in an issue of Scholastic Art.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
After students complete the 7-12 hands-on project, assign this skills sheet to each participant to encourage them to take their project a step further and think about their working process.
Visual Vocabulary or Sketchbook Starters
Visual Vocabulary or Sketchbook Starters
Included at both reading levels, these skills sheets may include reference sheets with art vocabulary terms featured in Scholastic Art, or they may ask students to create sketches based on prompts related to the issue.
Great Art Jobs
Great Art Jobs
In these lower-level skills sheets, students analyze the career of an arts professional featured in the magazine.
What I Learned
What I Learned
These lower-level skills sheets feature close-reading graphic organizers for examining what students learned in the Scholastic Art feature articles.
Online Learning Journeys
Online Learning Journeys
Each issue of Scholastic Art includes online-only Learning Journeys to accompany lesson plans for grades 7-12. These Learning Journeys are interactive Google Slides decks where students can guide themselves through the learning activities outlined in each lesson plan. Students can share their work with teachers through Google Slides!
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