“A lot of characters doing stuff…” who, gerunds, infinitives

A JTE came up to me and asked me to draw her a picture of a lot of characters mid action for an observation lesson she would have the following month. But she wanted to start working on it so she was hoping I could finish it in the next few days. I drew it out on a large A3 sheet of paper with a pencil and then inked it. After I switched to pen any mistake or change I decided on required me to use whiteout and then run the picture through a copier. Eventually the finished product was scanned so it could be added to worksheets.

That picture proved useful for many different lessons in all grades. I eventually redrew the entire thing in Ibis Paint X on my tablet. Now I offer this drawing and a general lesson plan and a few accompanying worksheets to you.

FYI the first two images are png with no background for the most part. So if you’re using a mobile device it may appear mostly black. If you print the image (on white paper) it will be fine. The third image is a jpg so it appears fine.


With names.
Without names.
With 11 blank names, a list of names, and a list of verbs. For the first year activity.