Using Text or Pictures to Find Information Worksheet
This Using Text or Pictures to Find Information Worksheet asks 2nd graders to decide whether each fact came from the words or the picture. An answer key is included, so nonfiction practice takes no prep.
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Description
Young readers meet two kinds of information on almost every nonfiction page: the information carried by the words, and the information carried by the picture beside them. Second graders are expected to tell those two sources apart and to explain what the illustration adds that the sentences do not say. This Using Text or Pictures to Find Information Worksheet makes that difference visible. Students read a short passage about sunflowers, study a garden picture, and then decide, statement by statement, whether they learned each fact from the text or from the picture.
This 2nd grade text features worksheet keeps the passage and the picture side by side so a child can look back and forth while working. Seven statements follow, each with a T bubble and a P bubble. Students fill in T when the words told them and P when the picture showed them — three of the seven are picture facts that never appear in the text, so guessing does not work. Use it after a nonfiction read-aloud, as a text features station, or as homework; the answer key on page two makes checking immediate.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- 1 short informational passage with a matching garden picture
- 7 fill-in-the-bubble statements sorted to text or picture
This Using Text or Pictures to Find Information Worksheet helps in three ways. First, it makes an invisible reading habit visible: children learn to ask where a fact came from instead of blending everything together. Second, it builds close-looking skills, because the picture facts — the yellow petals, the fence, the watering can — can only be found by studying the illustration carefully. Third, it gives every answer a reason, so a teacher can hear a child defend a choice out loud, which is exactly the kind of evidence talk that nonfiction reading standards ask for.
Teachers and parents can keep the skill going all week. Open any nonfiction library book, cover the photograph, and read the caption alone — then uncover it and list what the picture adds. Ask your child to draw a picture that shows something a paragraph never says. Sort classroom facts into a two-column chart headed Words and Picture. On a walk, name three things you can learn just by looking, then find a sign that tells you something your eyes could not.
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