Image-Making Research-Based Animal Trifolds
The Image-Making Research-Based Animal Trifold Unit invites teachers and students to enter the Image-Making Process through a skills-packed, relatively short unit of study. Students conduct visual and written research on an animal of their choosing. They each create their own portfolio of hand-painted papers based on the facts they have learned about their animal. In creating their Who Am I? trifold, students learn how to embed facts into their collage images and their written text while keeping their reader guessing prior to opening to the centerfold. Their writing includes a fact-based I poem and either a fact-based acrostic phrase poem, a “magic poem” for younger students, or straight informational text. Students write a reflective/opinion piece on their About the Artist/Writer page.
Image-Making Instructional Materials
Instructional Video
Now available online!
This lively instructional video provides a comprehensive overview of the Image-Making Research-Based Animal Trifolds process as well as captures every lesson necessary to facilitating this unit in the classroom. While filmed in a third-grade classroom, this project is appropriate for students K-12. This video details how to conduct visual and written research, create a portfolio of hand-painted papers, generate community word banks, and embed facts into collage images and text.
Because of the guessing nature of this trifold, students learn how to keep their reader engaged by saving their giveaway clue for the end. They also learn that using active verbs can make their collages come to life (6 hours of video content).
The Who Am I? Research-Based Animal Trifold Instructional Video Package includes the video described above, a teachers manual, 3 sample Image-Making trifolds of your choice, Image-Making Station Labels, a Time of Day Poster, an Artists/Writers Workshop Poster, and an Image-Making Artists Frame.
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Price: $325
Watch Video Clip: Image-Making Research-Based Animal Trifolds
Teachers Manual
The Who Am I? Research-Based Animal Trifold teacher’s guide provides teachers with step-by-step instructions for creating Image-Making Within The Writing Process® research-based animal trifolds in the classroom. It includes lessons on how to: conduct visual as well as written research; build community word banks; create a portfolio of hand-painted textured papers; design simple, compelling collage images; and embed facts into both image and text as students create their Who Am I? guessing trifolds. This teacher’s guide also includes all the writing masters needed as well as a list of recommended mentor texts. Created as a companion to the Who Am I? Research-Based Animal Trifold Instructional Video, it is distributed as part of the video package or as a teacher resource with the hands-on animal trifold workshop.
Mentor Texts
The Who Am I? Narwhal Trifold offers an example of an Image-Making guessing trifold including a fact-based I poem, a fact-based acrostic phrase poem and a reflective/opinion piece. This trifold is used as a mentor text in the instructional video.
The Who Am I? Porcupine Trifold offers an example of an Image-Making guessing trifold including a fact-based I poem, a fact-based acrostic phrase poem and a reflective/opinion piece. This trifold is used as a mentor text in the instructional video.
The Who Am I? Black Bear Trifold offers an example of an Image-Making guessing trifold including a fact-based I poem, a fact-based acrostic phrase poem and a reflective/opinion piece. This trifold was created during the filming of the Who Am I? instructional video.
The Who Am I? Canada Goose Trifold offers an example of an Image-Making guessing trifold including a fact-based I poem, a magic poem and reflective/opinion piece.
The Who Am I? Penguin Trifold by Lexi Fletcher offers an example of an Image-Making guessing trifold created by a kindergartner. It can be used as a mentor text for young writers in K-1. It includes a simple yet effective fact-based I poem, the simplest form of a “magic poem” (designed to make the animal come alive), and an About the Artist/Writer page.
The Who Am I? Walrus Trifold offers an example of an Image-Making guessing trifold created for K-1 students as well as possibly some second graders. It includes a fact-based I poem, a “magic poem” (designed to make the animal come alive), and an About the Artist/Writer page.
The Who Am I? Bear Trifold offers an example of an Image-Making guessing trifold created for K-1 students as well as some possibly some second graders. It includes a fact-based I poem, a “magic poem” (designed to make the animal come alive), and an About the Artist/Writer page.
At the Lake… by Ayla and Haley Pignataro is a foldout guessing book that contains 22 collage images made from hand-painted textured papers. Inspired by the work of Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, each page offers visual and written clues about an animal at the lake, in this case, a collage of the animal’s habitat and a fact-based I poem. After reading the final “give-away clue,” the reader is invited to guess. Open each foldout page to find a carefully crafted collage image of the animal in its habitat. Each animal collage is accompanied by either a magic poem or an acrostic phrase poem. Experience for yourself how words can make the animal appear to “come alive!”
Station Labels
Image-Making Station Labels –This set of 20 laminated station labels are folded to create “tabletop tents.” Each provides a visual example of a paper-texturing technique on the front and directions on the back of how to set up each station and model that painting process. Available in English or French.
Posters
The Times of Day Poster is used during this research-based animal trifold project as a reference to remind students to consider what color skies they need to paint depending on when their animal is awake. It is also referenced during the collage-making process as students embed facts about their animal into each collage image. Available in English and French.