Discover inspiring artists while building reading skills, vocabulary and creative confidence.
Bring art history into your child’s reading time with 5 Days of Reading: Amazing Artists, a 36-page printable pack for ages 8–10. Thoughtfully planned reading passages, comprehension questions and hands-on art activities help children explore five remarkable artists and the stories behind their work.
Meet Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Amrita Sher-Gil, Horace Pippin and Laura Wheeler Waring. Through their lives and artworks, children explore identity, culture and everyday life, discovering different ways artists have represented themselves and others.
What’s included?
Five complete artist studies with reading passages, illustrated fact files and artwork images.
Challenge words and vocabulary pages to support understanding.
Retrieval, inference and vocabulary questions that encourage children to find information, explain their thinking and look closely.
Optional spoken discussion questions for exploring ideas together.
Five creative art activities to connect reading with making.
Guidance and answers for parents.
Read, discuss and create at your own pace
Explore one artist each day across five days, or spread the studies over several weeks. Use the pack for home education, purposeful reading practice or shared learning with an art-loving child.
Created by a qualified primary teacher and Art & DT specialist, this pack brings literacy and art together, giving children meaningful ideas to read about, talk about and respond to creatively.
Ages: 8–10
Length: 36 pages
Format: Digital download to print at home. No physical product will be sent.
Discover inspiring artists while building reading skills, vocabulary and creative confidence.
Bring art history into your child’s reading time with 5 Days of Reading: Amazing Artists, a 36-page printable pack for ages 8–10. Thoughtfully planned reading passages, comprehension questions and hands-on art activities help children explore five remarkable artists and the stories behind their work.
Meet Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Amrita Sher-Gil, Horace Pippin and Laura Wheeler Waring. Through their lives and artworks, children explore identity, culture and everyday life, discovering different ways artists have represented themselves and others.
What’s included?
Five complete artist studies with reading passages, illustrated fact files and artwork images.
Challenge words and vocabulary pages to support understanding.
Retrieval, inference and vocabulary questions that encourage children to find information, explain their thinking and look closely.
Optional spoken discussion questions for exploring ideas together.
Five creative art activities to connect reading with making.
Guidance and answers for parents.
Read, discuss and create at your own pace
Explore one artist each day across five days, or spread the studies over several weeks. Use the pack for home education, purposeful reading practice or shared learning with an art-loving child.
Created by a qualified primary teacher and Art & DT specialist, this pack brings literacy and art together, giving children meaningful ideas to read about, talk about and respond to creatively.
Ages: 8–10
Length: 36 pages
Format: Digital download to print at home. No physical product will be sent.
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