Artist biography worksheets for 5th grade

Art meets informational text!

One-page artist biographies combine reading comprehension with art observation and help develop visual literacy. Each artist summary is accompanied by a student response worksheet with prompts for written and illustrated responses to informational text.

These mini-biographies are kid-friendly and designed to accompany art observation activities; a list of suggested art works to use with the biographies is included.

They can also be used alone.

Artist Biographies Set One includes biographies for the following artists:

Marc Chagall

Frida Kahlo

Wassily Kandinsky

Henri Matisse

Pablo Picasso

Norman Rockwell

Each biography is a short summary of the artist’s life, including information about his or her art style.

The student worksheets ask students to draw and write responses to open-ended prompts that are text-dependent and require factual, personal opinion, and inferential responses.

Use these for shared reading with younger stud