This document provides a lesson plan focused on the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds. The plan includes 3 main activities: 1) Having students predict what will happen in the book based on its cover and retelling the beginning, middle, and end. 2) Discussing the book and connecting it to other similar texts. 3) Having students draw their own art inspired by the book and famous artist Damien Hirst, then display their work in a dot gallery like Aboriginal dot paintings. The lesson also includes developing vocabulary around signatures and setting personal reading goals.

1. Andrea Hillbrick 2013
Planning with a quality text:
Comprehension:
Prediction – get a picture from inside the
book put it in a frame (hook).
Beginning, middle and end – book retell.
Text to text – Ish, Judy Moody, Stink
Reading: Talking and listening:
Confidence
Writing:
Describe a piece of work that students
have completed in art.
Looking at Damien Hirst’s art work and
draw your own – compare both
paintings.
The Dot
Peter H. Reynolds
iPad apps:
Making:
Own dot gallery to display – link to
Aboriginal dot paintings.
Other:
Dot day? Twitter
Shepparton Art Museum – look at
paintings and signatures.
Personal goal – something that they want
to work on.
Vocabulary:
Signature – why do people sign, create
your own.