K reading assessment questions: Understanding stories from pictures.

📚 Quick Study Guide: Understanding Stories from Pictures

• 🔍 Observation Skills: Encourage children to carefully observe all elements in a picture – characters, objects, setting, and their relationships.
• 💡 Sequencing Events: Teach them to identify the order of events by noticing changes from one picture to the next (beginning, middle, end).
• 🤔 Inferencing & Prediction: Guide them to guess what might happen next or why something is happening based on visual clues. What are the characters feeling? What could they be thinking?
• 🗣️ Vocabulary Building: Use the pictures as a springboard to introduce new words related to emotions, actions, and objects.
• 💬 Narrative Development: Help children create a simple story arc – who are the characters, what is the problem, and how is it resolved?
• ✅ Key Questions: Prompt with "Who is in the picture?", "What are they doing?", "Where are they?", "When is this happening?", "Why is this happening?"

📝 Practice Quiz: Picture Comprehension

1. A picture shows a boy holding a watering can next to a wilting flower. What is the boy most likely doing?

1. Picking the flower
2. Watering the flower
3. Smelling the flower
4. Planting a new flower

2. If a picture shows a girl with a sad face and tears, what emotion is she most likely feeling?

1. Happy
2. Angry
3. Sad
4. Excited

3. A sequence of pictures shows a seed, then a sprout, then a small plant, and finally a big tree. What does this sequence tell us?

1. How to water a plant
2. The life cycle of a tree
3. Different types of trees
4. How to pick fruit

4. When looking at a picture, what helps us understand where the story is taking place?

1. The colors used
2. The background details like buildings or trees
3. How many characters are there
4. The size of the picture

5. A picture shows a child wearing a hat and scarf, playing in snow. What season is it most likely?

1. Summer
2. Spring
3. Autumn
4. Winter

6. To figure out what a character is doing in a picture, what should you focus on?

1. Their clothes
2. Their actions and body language
3. The sky color
4. How many feet they have

7. If a picture shows a cat chasing a mouse, and the next picture shows the mouse hiding in a hole, what happened?

1. The cat caught the mouse
2. The mouse ran away from the cat
3. The cat and mouse played together
4. The mouse gave the cat a gift