
Using Pictures to Support Reading | Learning To Read | NPT3
11/5/2021 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Looking for details and clues in pictures can help children expand their vocabulary.
Looking for details and clues in pictures can help children expand their vocabulary. Start practicing with the cover of a children's book. What can you tell about the story before you even start reading the pages? Read a couple pages and ask your child if their opinions changed from what they observed from the cover.
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Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.

Using Pictures to Support Reading | Learning To Read | NPT3
11/5/2021 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Looking for details and clues in pictures can help children expand their vocabulary. Start practicing with the cover of a children's book. What can you tell about the story before you even start reading the pages? Read a couple pages and ask your child if their opinions changed from what they observed from the cover.
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Looking at the pictures in a book is an easy way to help my son to learn to read.
Next, I draw a dinosaur.
You draw me a dinosaur before, right?
- Yes.
- Yeah.
Looking at the details and the clues in the pictures can help predict what might happen in the story.
Can you tell me what's happening in this picture?
- He move all pickup.
- We start with the cover of the book.
I must, what do you think the book might be looking at this picture - Animal and their back.
- All the animals with the backpack?
- yeah - I have them make a connection using words, like, because.
I think the stories about this, because I see this picture.
Pictures give us clues or ideas about books, which helps us learn to read.
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