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Reading · K–2 · 12 minutes

Picture Reading Response: a child with a kite

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

Picture Reading Response: a child with a kite

Name:                              
Date:              

Today I am practising: making observations and inferences

1

Look at a child with a kite. List three details you notice.

2

What do you think happened just before this picture?

3

What might happen next in a child with a kite?

4

How might one person in a child with a kite feel? Why?

5

Write one question you would ask about a child with a kite.

6

Give a child with a kite 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.