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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 8 of 16

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: KR7 · 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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 8 of 16 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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

    Use the picture. Which word fits?

    ☀️I like the ___.
    • frog
    • cake
    • sun

  2. Question 2

    Which sentence matches the picture?

    🐐
    • Look at the bee!
    • Look at the sock!
    • Look at the goat!

  3. Question 3

    Which sentence matches the picture?

    📦
    • Here is the duck.
    • Here is the fish.
    • Here is the box.

  4. Question 4

    Use the picture. Which word fits?

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

  5. Question 5

    Use the picture. Which word fits?

    🎩Here is the ___.
    • hat
    • pig
    • fish

  6. Question 6

    Use the picture. Which word fits?

    🗺️Here is the ___.
    • hat
    • cake
    • map

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