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Art and design

Lesson 4: Shading

Working in the style of Nancy McCroskey’s mural, ‘Suite in Black, White and Grey’, children draw six boxes, filling each with a line that starts at one edge and finishes at another, then experiment with tone by shading the different areas they have made

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Before the lesson

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Learning objective

  • To explore the use of tones in shading

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught:

  • To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

Success criteria

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Cross-curricular links

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Attention grabber

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Main event

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Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: This lesson is about the neatness in shading and the shapes chosen for each box rather than drawing the squares, so a photocopied sheet with six squares already marked out will give these children confidence to make a start.

 

Pupils working at greater depth:What can you draw with one line? Can you outline a human figure without taking your pencil off the page?

Wrapping up

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Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

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Vocabulary

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