Kindergarten Illustration Unit | I Can Draw With Shapes | Draw and Color

This is a four week illustration unit to help kindergarten/first grade writers become confident in their drawing and coloring skills. Primary students will learn how to draw with shapes and people with different facial expressions, hairstyles, and skin tones.

This illustration study sets kindergarten students up for success for the rest of the year during writers workshop. Students can reference their directed drawing notebook throughout the year if they forget how to draw an object already taught.

What's included:

• 4 weeks of lesson plans
• Outline of unit teaching points
• Self portrait to practice different hairstyles, facial expression, and skin tones
• 24 easy directed drawings using ONLY SHAPES: girl, boy, house, school, park, car, bus, boat, truck, playground, firetruck, ice cream, bicycle, flower, dog, cat, pig, horse, fish, shark, dinosaur, lion, tiger, giraffe
• Two options of directed drawing formats: full page directed drawing and directed drawing with space at bottom to draw the picture
• Various rubric options
• Parent letters (pre and post unit)
• Coloring Checklist
• 6 Anchor Chart options: hairstyle/faces, I can build a person, I can draw with shapes, I can draw warm clothes, I can draw cold clothes, I can draw accessories (digital versions added Feb 2022)
• Directed drawing labels for compositional notebook

How to Use:

• Refer to daily lesson plans which contains materials and mentor texts that you will need.

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WANT ADDITIONAL DIRECTED DRAWINGS WITH SHAPES ONLY?

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