Using Illustrations to Understand a Story Worksheet
The Using Illustrations to Understand a Story Worksheet gives 1st graders a short story and a picture that fills in what the words leave out. Five questions and an answer key are included.
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Description
An illustration is not decoration. In a picture book the artist carries part of the story the words never say — the season, the weather, what a character is holding, how a face looks when the sentence only says she grinned. Learning to read the two together is one of the first real comprehension skills a child is asked for, and it is exactly what the Using Illustrations to Understand a Story Worksheet is built to practice.
Students read a short story about a child named Blake who wakes up early, runs out into the yard and rolls three balls of something cold. The words never name what she builds, what is falling around her, or what the carrot is for — the picture does. Five multiple-choice questions follow: three of them can only be answered by looking closely at the illustration, and two are answered by going back to the text. Use this 1st grade picture clues worksheet as a guided lesson, as independent practice after a read-aloud, or as a quick check before a reading unit. Read the story aloud once, look at the picture together, then let students fill in the bubbles on their own.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- 1 original story with a full-page illustration, written at a 1st grade reading level
- 5 multiple-choice questions with 3 answer choices each
There are three reasons the Using Illustrations to Understand a Story Worksheet helps children learn this skill. First, the picture is doing real work: because the story genuinely leaves the answer out, a child cannot get items one through three by skimming the sentences, and has to look. Second, the sheet mixes picture questions and text questions on purpose, so a young reader practices deciding where the answer lives instead of always reaching for the same place. Third, every answer is checkable. A child can point to the carrot or point to the sentence, and a teacher can ask “how do you know?” and get a real reason back.
Teacher and Parent Ideas
Cover the picture with a sheet of paper and read the story aloud. Ask the class what they still do not know, and write the questions on the board. Then uncover the illustration and let them answer their own questions. Afterward, hand out the worksheet. For an extension, have students draw one more picture for the last sentence of the story — Blake running to the door — and then tell a partner what their picture adds that the words left out.
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