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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 8 of 12

Picture Clues

Use pictures to read words

What your child practices

Using the picture and the first letter to read a word or a short sentence, a key early reading strategy.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 0.1.5.3 · how the pictures and the words in a book go together

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Look at the picture first.
  2. Read the words you know.
  3. Use the picture to help with a new word.

Example: The picture is a pig. Which fits? “I see the pig.” or “I see the cup.” The picture is a pig. Find the sentence that says pig. Answer: I see the pig.

Picture Clues in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 8 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Book Detectives and before Blend a Word.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which sentence matches the picture?

    📦
    • I can see the box.
    • I can see the bus.
    • I can see the bear.

  2. Question 2

    Use the picture. Which word fits?

    🐝Here is the ___.
    • goat
    • bee
    • map

  3. Question 3

    Which sentence matches the picture?

    🎩
    • Look at the hat!
    • Look at the cat!
    • Look at the bed!

  4. Question 4

    Which sentence matches the picture?

    🐻
    • I like the pig.
    • I like the bear.
    • I like the moon.

  5. Question 5

    Use the picture. Which word fits?

    🦇Here is the ___.
    • bat
    • bee
    • sock

  6. Question 6

    Use the picture. Which word fits?

    🦊Here is the ___.
    • bus
    • sock
    • fox

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