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Reading · K–2 · 12 minutes

Picture Reading Response: a rainy-day window

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

Picture Reading Response: a rainy-day window

Name:                              
Date:              

Today I am practising: making observations and inferences

1

Look at a rainy-day window. List three details you notice.

2

What do you think happened just before this picture?

3

What might happen next in a rainy-day window?

4

How might one person in a rainy-day window feel? Why?

5

Write one question you would ask about a rainy-day window.

6

Give a rainy-day window a title.

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

How to use it

A simple ten-minute routine

  1. Set the purposeTell your learner this page practises making observations and inferences.
  2. Let them tryRead the prompt aloud once, then give space to think.
  3. Talk it throughAsk: “What did you notice?” and celebrate the strategy.