Reading pictures

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This task is about making inferences from illustrations.

Look at the picture and answer the questions.

Question

a) Which of these titles would go best with this picture?

b) Why is the girl probably chewing her pencil?

c) What do the lines between the girl's glove and the ball show?

d) What are the girls probably fighting about?

e) What are three things about this picture which show the girl is angry?

f) Choose the picture in which the girl is feeling the most angry.

g) Most of the pictures have been drawn inside shapes that look like this:

What do these shapes show?

Task administration:

This task can be completed using pencil and paper and online (with SOME auto marking).

Learning Media, School Journal, Part 1, No 2, 1998.

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Description of task:

Students unpack a picture, making inferences from its visual cues. SJ-1-2-1998. Text provided.

Answers/responses:

		Y5 (05/1999)
a)	C (The Bad Day.)	easy
b)	Any 1 of: • She does not know the answer/she can not do her maths work. • She feels worried. • She is thinking.	very easy
c)	Any 1 of: • She has missed the ball/dropped a catch. • The movement of the ball.	easy
d)	Any 1 of: • The TV remote. • What channel to watch on TV.	easy
e)	Any 3 of: • Her teeth (are clenched). • Her mouth (is stretched open). • Her eyes (are squeezed shut). • Her cheeks (are red/flushed). • Her hands (are clenched). • Her feet (are tapping). • The cloud. • The stars. • The lightning.	3 correct – moderate 2 correct – easy 1 correct – very easy
f)	The fight with her sister.	very easy
g)	Any 1 of: • She is thinking/remembering/ daydreaming/imagining. • Thought bubbles. [Do not accept: "speech bubbles".]	difficult