Unit 2

Get The Message!

Lesson 5

Tricky Pictures

Sometimes when you look at photographs, you realize that they are not real, like the one shown here. Some elements of this picture are real and some parts are not. Can you tell what parts are not real?


Now open your Literacy in Action 4A textbook to Tricky Pics  on page 75.
Take a look at the pictures on pages 75 to 79.
  

People use computer software programs, such as PhotoShop, to alter or change the way a picture looks.

You use what you know, your background knowledge about items in a picture to determine if the picture is realistic or not.
  • In this case, the Muppet, Kermit part, is real. But, the picture book he is holding with tree frog pictures can't be real.
  • You use your background knowledge about tree frogs to know this.
  • When you look closer at the pictures, what parts are not real?
  • Even though you may never have seen a real tree frog, you know that tree frogs don't sit on VW vans, wear head phones or pull little suitcases around.
Go to page 75 in your Literacy in Action 4A textbook. Use your background knowledge to determine how you know these pictures are not real.

Reader's Notebook - Assessment (Formative)

Provide three reasons that prove pictures of the dogs and cat are not real and write your answers on the Reader’s Notebook: Tricky Pictures worksheet.


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