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.

Lessons

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.

Key skills

Generating ideas:

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Key knowledge

Formal elements:

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Key vocabulary

blending

charcoal

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Assessment – Art and design Y2: Drawing: Tell a story

Assessment resources for this unit. Use

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Knowledge organiser

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Unit vocabulary

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Art and design: Long-term plans

A suggested order for teaching Art

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National curriculum mapping

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Assessment

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Unit vocabulary

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Equipment list

A checklist of art equipment required

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Art and design – List of artists

This document lists the artists studied

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