ANALYSING AN ARTWORK / MY ARTWORK - Stage 1, 2 and 3 - Worksheets

As part of the programming I am doing this year for my school, I have created worksheets that students will use to learn how to analyse artworks.
In particular, I will be using the worksheets to write about their own artworks. Outcomes for the Appreciation component of the K-6 Visual Arts Syllabus are completed when using these worksheet.
 Feel free to use them or modify them to meet your needs.
The images provided are in jpeg format as this is the only way I can get the worksheets loaded.

EARLY STAGE 1 - Kindergarten.
This worksheet is very simple. It asks students to describe the artwork. The teacher would write the words on the whiteboard and the kindy kids would copy them onto the worksheet. This worksheets is also about literacy skills - spelling and descriptive words.
 
 
VISUAL ARTS OUTCOMES EARLY STAGE 1 – APPRECIATION
 
 
VAES1.3
Recognises some of the qualities of different artworks and begins to realise that artists make artworks.
 
VAS1.3
 
Communicates their ideas about pictures and other kinds of artworks.

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STAGE 1 - Years 1 and 2

 
VISUAL ARTS OUTCOMES STAGE 2 – APPRECIATION
 
 
VAS2.3
Acknowledges that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible.
 
VAS2.4
Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciate the use of a particular technique.

This worksheets is a little more advanced that the previous. It has students thinking about the WHAT, HOW and WHY of the artwork. Questions relate to media, and art making processes. They can begin to make informed personal judgments about their own artworks and the artworks of others. 
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STAGE 2 - Years 3 and 4
 
VISUAL ARTS OUTCOMES STAGE 2 – APPRECIATION 
 

 VAS2.3

Acknowledges that artists make artworks for different reasons and that various interpretations are possible.

 VAS2.4
Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciate the use of a particular technique.
 

 This worksheet is again more advanced and is based loosely on the type of analysis work done in Stage 4 , year 7. I wanted to have the students thinking and writing about their artworks using the four steps of describe, analyse, interpret and decide. Their writing should become more sophisticated in the manner is which they address set questions.
In our art Room we have a Word Wall which has all sorts of words that are subject specific. Actually, I have art words all over the Art Room on every wall so students can learn the word and what is means. Students are also using their knowledge of the Elements of Art.
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STAGE 3 - Years 5 and 6
 
VISUAL ARTS OUTCOMES STAGE 3 – APPRECIATION
 
 
VAS3.3
Acknowledges that audiences respond in different ways to artworks and that there are different opinions about the value of artworks.
 
VAS3.4
Communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.
This worksheet is the same as that for Stage 2 but my expectation on the types of written responses is much higher. Students will be given an example of the type of answer they should be writing.
Students can refer to the Word Wall for art specific words to help them write informed responses.
 



 
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