Finding Information Using Text and Photos Worksheet

Nonfiction readers find facts in two different places at once: the words on the page and the pictures beside them. Learning to notice which one gave them an answer is how first graders begin to read informational text on purpose instead of by accident. This Finding Information Using Text and Photos Worksheet asks students to do exactly that, one question at a time, with a short article about beavers that pairs a simple paragraph with a clear photo-style illustration of a beaver beside its stick lodge.

Students begin by reading the short article and studying the picture next to it. Then they work through six questions and fill in a bubble to show where the answer came from: the text, the picture, or both. Some answers are only in the words, such as what a baby beaver is called. Some are only in the picture, such as the color of a beaver’s fur and the wide, flat shape of its tail. Others, such as where beavers live and what they build, appear in both places. This 1st grade text features worksheet works beautifully as guided practice, as an independent center, or as a quick check before a nonfiction reading unit.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 1 short nonfiction article with a heading and an illustration
• 6 fill-in-the-bubble questions with text, picture, and both choices

There are three reasons this resource helps children learn the skill. First, it slows readers down: instead of racing to an answer, students have to stop and ask themselves where they found it, which is the habit that carries them into headings, captions, labels, and diagrams later on. Second, every question on this Finding Information Using Text and Photos Worksheet has exactly one defensible answer, so the activity can be discussed as a class without arguments about what counts. Third, the fill-in-the-bubble format gives young students practice with the answer style they will meet on real reading assessments, while the reading load stays comfortably at a first grade level.

Teachers and parents can stretch this skill in a few easy ways. Read a nonfiction picture book aloud, cover the illustrations, and ask children what they still know and what they now cannot tell. Give students a magazine photo with no caption and have them write one sentence the picture tells them and one sentence it cannot. Try a sorting game with cards labeled text, picture, and both, using facts pulled from a science article. You can also flip the task and let children draw a picture that adds one new fact to a sentence you have written together, then trade papers and see whether a partner can spot what the drawing added.

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