How to use Clipart: Sections (Chapter 7)
Don’t you just love a bag with multiple useful storage compartments? This chapter is about clipart that has naturally occurring sections that function just like storage compartments.
Sections can come in very handy for skills where there are multiple question inputs. Check out the ideas below!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Halloween Place Values
Clipart: Coffin – less details
Skill: Place Values/Tens and Ones
Notes: This is a 3-section example. One section serves as the question input, while the other 2 are for students to answer the question. The horizontal wooden strips worked perfectly for this example!
Idea #2: Soda Cans Synonyms and Antonyms
Clipart: Soda Can
Skill: Synonyms and Antonyms
Notes: The soda can gives you 2 sections. That’s great for synonyms, verbs, nouns, adjectives, comparing numbers, etc.
Idea #3: 10 More 10 Less Dino Eggs
Clipart: Dinosaur Egg Nest
Skill: 10 more 10 less
Notes: This is a special category of sections – 3 in a row! That’s perfect for 1 more 1 less, number order, etc.
Idea #4: Honeycomb Facts
Clipart: Honeycomb
Skill: Addition Facts/Number Sentences
Notes: If you have a clipart with many, many sections, it’s great for multiple answer MCQs. In this example it’s equal equations. Students color all the answers that are equal to 10. It can work for rhymes, subitizing, sight words, etc.
Idea #5: Snow Fort Sight Words
Clipart: Snow Fort
Skill: Sight Words
Notes: This is another example of a clipart with many, many sections. In this case, it’s an example of sight words. Out of the many options, students select all of the particular sight word.
Idea #6: Carrot Patch Comparing Numbers
Clipart: Carrots 2 in a row
Skill: Comparing Numbers
Notes: Here are 2 sections, and students color/select the correct one. With this particular carrot patch, there are more possibilities, since it’s possible to add text in the soil patch too.
Idea #7: Missing Number Ants
Clipart: Ant
Skill: Missing Number
Notes: The ant gives 3 sections. So that’s great for missing numbers, number order, etc.
Idea #8: Umbrella Fact Families
Clipart: Umbrella
Skill: Addition and Subtraction Fact Families
Notes: The 3 sections of the umbrella hold the 3 numbers needed to form the fact families. Look above and below for more ways to use 3 sections.
Idea #9: Pumpkin Fact Families
Clipart: Pumpkin
Skill: Multiplication and Division Fact Families
Notes: This is pretty much like Idea #8, just for a slightly different skill.
Idea #10: Balloon Bunch Number Order
Clipart: Balloon Bunch
Skill: Number Order
Notes: Here’s another idea for 3 sections!
Idea #11: Irregular Verbs Cauldron
Clipart: Cauldron
Skill: Irregular Verbs
Notes: This is a 2-section thing where you use one section for the question input, and the other section for students to write their answers.
Idea #12: Snow Mountain Adjectives
Clipart: Snow Mountain
Skill: Adjectives
Notes: This is another 2-section example where students color/select the correct answer out of the 2.
Idea #13: Lemonade Number Words
Clipart: Lemonade Pitcher
Skill: Number Words
Notes: Here’s another 2-section example where you use one section for the question input, and the other section for students to write their answers.
Idea #14: Popsicle Rhymes
Clipart: Popsicle
Skill: CVC Rhymes
Notes: In this 3-section example, students color 2 of the same and leave out the odd one out.
Idea #15: Burger Graphic Organizer
Clipart: Burger
Skill: Topic + Details
Notes: Sections can also serve as graphic organizers!
How to Use Clipart
I have been thinking about how teachers use clipart for a long time now, so that my clipart can be really useful. And these chapters are the result of all that figuring out. Each chapter introduces a way of thinking about clipart to help you make the most of your purchases and grow your TpT store.
Chapter 1 – Single Clipart Matching
Chapter 4 – Multiple Items Matching
Chapter 5 – Containers + Matching Items
Chapter 6 – Empty Clipart Space
Chapter 10 – Clipart Characters
