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Picture Reading Response: a family picnic

Use a simple picture prompt to practise noticing details, ideas, and questions.

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Picture Reading Response: a family picnic

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Date:              

Today I am practising: making observations and inferences

1

Look at a family picnic. List three details you notice.

2

What do you think happened just before this picture?

3

What might happen next in a family picnic?

4

How might one person in a family picnic feel? Why?

5

Write one question you would ask about a family picnic.

6

Give a family picnic a title.

Grown-up note: Ask your learner to explain one answer in their own words.

For the grown-up

How to teach this page

  1. Step 1Tell your learner what this page practises.
  2. Step 2Read the prompt aloud once, then give space to think.
  3. Step 3Ask what they noticed and celebrate the strategy.