Picture Pathways: the complete bundle
Get the whole Picture Pathways collection in one PDF. Explore Puddle Patrol, Garden Crew and The Book Bag Mystery through noticing, describing and inferring.
- Year levels
- Grades 1–2 · K with support
- Page count
- 15 total · 9 student pages
- Format
- Printable PDF · 18.9 MB
- Paper size
- US Letter · 8.5 × 11 in
- Focus
- Oral language · Vocabulary · Inference
- Use
- Picture talk · Print & respond
Oral language, vocabulary, description and picture-based inference. Use alongside your phonics and decoding instruction.
What’s inside
- Three picture scenes: Puddle Patrol, Garden Crew and The Book Bag Mystery
- Nine student pages across Notice, Describe and Infer
- Word banks and sentence starters
- Three teacher introductions and three response guides
Ready to teach
A simple way to begin.
- 1Look and talk. Display the picture and collect a few visible details together.
- 2Write or draw. Print a student page. Let children use a few words, a sentence or a sketch.
- 3Explain a clue. Ask what in the picture supports an idea. Use the guide for possible responses.
Make it fit
Room for every response.
Read prompts aloud and rehearse a response before writing, including in Grades 1–2 where needed. For Kindergarten, accept pointing, drawing or speaking; an adult can record the child’s words.
For multilingual learners, name unfamiliar objects and use gestures for position words. Allow rehearsal in a familiar language before discussing an English response. For other levels, adapt vocabulary and writing demand; compare two possible ideas and their clues.