Text or Pictures Worksheet
This text or pictures worksheet asks 3rd grade students to answer six questions about beavers, then mark whether each answer came from the passage or the illustration. An answer key is included, so checking work takes only a moment.
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Description
This text or pictures worksheet helps students learn where information actually comes from when they read. Good readers use two sources at once: the words on the page and the images beside them. Some facts are stated in the sentences, and other facts are only shown in the illustration. Learning to tell those two sources apart is a key text features skill, and it is the first step toward using captions, diagrams, labels, and photographs the way a real researcher does.
On this printable, students read a short informational passage about beavers and study an illustration of a beaver sitting beside a quiet pond. Six questions follow. For each one, students write the answer on the line and then fill in a bubble to show whether they found that answer in the text or in the picture. Three answers are hiding in the sentences, and three can only be seen in the artwork, so students have to check both sources carefully before they decide.
What’s Included
- One printable worksheet page with a short informational passage and an original illustration
- Six write-the-answer questions, each with Text and Picture bubbles to fill in
- A complete answer key showing every written answer and the correct source
- A clean, print-friendly PDF sized for standard letter paper
Three Reasons This Helps Kids
- It makes the difference between reading and viewing concrete, so students stop guessing where a fact came from.
- Every question has one defensible answer and one defensible source, which builds the habit of finding evidence.
- Writing the answer and then naming its source is a two-step task, so students slow down and think instead of skimming.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use this 3rd grade text features worksheet as a warm-up before a nonfiction unit, as a small-group station, or as a quick check after a science read-aloud. Ask students to cover the picture and try the questions again, then talk about which ones became impossible to answer. Hand out a magazine article and have partners list three facts from the words and three facts from the photographs. You can also flip the task: show only the illustration and ask students to write the sentences they think the author would have written. Any text or pictures worksheet works well beside a labeled diagram, so pair this page with a book that has captions and let students hunt for the same split between words and images.
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