Powerful way to assist in building vocabulary with ELL students through authentic artwork. VIEW the Teaching Channel video and REVIEW the student handout. Try it with your students and evaluate the learning.

1. Common Core Language Building Activity through ART– Table Talk Discussions - Focus: Using Common Preposition
Adapted from The Teaching Channel Video:
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/build-language-skills-through-the-arts-getty
Powerful Vocabulary Lesson for ELL Students
Step 1:
Ask students: What do you see?
Step 2:
Identify items students did not mention.
Step 3:
Ask students to describe….
Where specific items are located on the tray?
Students would then practice using the
prepositions of location words (see chart).
SEE sample sentence frames on the next page.

2. Sentence Frames for identify the location of the items in the “Still Life” artwork.