Drawing: Tell a story
This unit focuses on helping pupils develop their ability to tell a story through drawing. It includes lessons on creating textures, observational drawing, character expression, and storytelling through illustrations, enhancing pupils' mark-making techniques, observational skills, and imagination in art. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.
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Drawing: Tell a story
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Suggest ways to draw a word through marks.
- Use relevant language to describe how an object feels.
- Suggest ways to create different textures through drawn marks.
- Freely experiment with different tools, receiving encouragement when needed.
- Describe and then draw shapes that make up an object.
- Use good observational skills to add details to their drawing.
- Use an interesting range of marks that show an understanding of how to draw different textures.
- Make sketches, which may be of basic stick-like figures or may imply more shapes.
- Develop sketches into a character, with some support, adding details to enhance their character.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how drawing facial features in different ways conveys expressions.
- Recount a story and select key events to draw.
- Create scenes from their own imagination, with some support.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Make your mark
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Charcoal mark making
- To develop a range of mark making techniques.
Lesson 2: Creating texture
- To explore and experiment with mark-making to create textures.
Lesson 3: My toy story
- To develop observational drawing.
Lesson 4: Creating characters
- To understand how to apply expressions to illustrate a character.
Lesson 5: Tell a story
- To develop illustrations to tell a story.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes
English: Reading – comprehension