Whether you realize it or not, reading an image and reading a text require similar skills, including the ability to make inferences. For this simple worksheet, children look at a picture of a snowy winter day and answer a series of inferential multiple choice questions, choosing one of their responses to explain in writing.

Concepts

inferences, making inferences, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, image analysis, photograph analysis

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Extend learning for early finishers by having them write their own inferential questions about the picture
• Project the worksheet and discuss the questions as a class during a lesson on making inferences
• Differentiate the worksheet by requiring some children to write an explaination for all of their answers, rather than choosing just a single answer to explain

Classroom Considerations

• For students living in warmer climates, some of these questions may be difficult to answer because they require prior experience with winter weather
• Printing the worksheet in black and white will make it a harder for children to make inferences about the image

Pros

• Exercise clearly addresses children's ability to make inferences
• Directions are clear and easy to follow
• An answer key is included with the worksheet

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1 RL.6.1 RI.6.1