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Reading · K–2 · 12 minutes

Picture Reading Response: a garden in spring

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

Picture Reading Response: a garden in spring

Name:                              
Date:              

Today I am practising: making observations and inferences

1

Look at a garden in spring. List three details you notice.

2

What do you think happened just before this picture?

3

What might happen next in a garden in spring?

4

How might one person in a garden in spring feel? Why?

5

Write one question you would ask about a garden in spring.

6

Give a garden in spring 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.