Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.K.7

Core Standard
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When we are reading nonfiction, we can often use a point of reference that drives us to make better conclusions. Illustrations are the perfect media to achieve this. When we are working with fictious works images help being worlds to life for the audience. In many commercial works having images that align with the work are critical for a book’s success. This can help the reader attribute value to a setting, a place, or a series of characters. We try not to, but many people truly judge a book by its cover. These worksheets will help you understand how to classify the relationship between images and the text that inspired their creation.

Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts Worksheets To Print:

What are Illustrations? - The following is text from the story. Read the text or ask you teacher or parent to read it to you. The questions make you feel like you're in a psychologists office.

By the Campfire - The cowboy gets you started off with this one! First, look at the picture below. Talk about what you see. Why do you think the illustrator drew the picture?

From the Story - See how these questions go. The following is part of a story in a book. Also, an illustration from the book is shown on the worksheet.

Storybook - You will be given a page to be creative with. Can you think of part of a story that could fit in the middle of this page? Talk about what this part of the story would be or write it on the page.

Best Friends - Two sets of best friends come across one another. What do you think the illustration of the friends says about the text?

My New Shoes! - The title of the book is "My New Shoes". Now, take a look at the written parts of the story.

The School Bus - What do the illustrations on this page show? Do they help develop the story or slow it down.

Megan and the Book - Megan sat on the grass happily. She wanted to finish reading her book. How does the image that you are provided with help you better understand the story.

A Book about Dragons! - Gemma and her baby sister turned back to look at the angry dragon. How many angry dragons do you see in the picture? Why do you say so?

Mummy's Big Day - Does the image lead you to think of more? Does it help you understand the age of the children?

Max & the Test - In a storybook titled "Max & the Test", the following is part of the story.

Who is Ms. Lisa? - Ms. Lisa is a teacher. She teaches the kindergarten class. What can we learn about her from the image that the reading did not tell us?

Jumping and Dancing - What story do the illustrations help to tell? What do you think is going on and what would write about if you were the author?

Color the Illustration - What kind of storybook could the illustration above be part of? Sometimes complete narratives are formed from images.

Tommy's Cake - Read the story and see if you understand what is happening. The cake picture kind of gives it away.

What is the Relationship Between Illustrations and Texts?

The combination of illustrations and text benefit readers in many different ways. They can help you get a picture in your mind and infer more about a characters motivation.


Enhancing the Child's Cognition


Illustrations are mostly used because they are visibly appealing to children. Illustrations are colorful images that seem attractive to children. They appeal to the children and create an interest and curiosity for the book itself. This helps in making the child read and understand the book. The text, with the help of illustrations, can be used to further comprehend the correct meanings of the illustrations. All of this helps in the brain development of the child. It helps them in gaining a sense of the world. Illustrations along with texts build perceptions in the children. It also increases the imagination and observing power of them.


A good combination of both illustrations and text improves the child's learning abilities. The child is getting awed by the illustrations along with gaining relevant information through the text. Illustrations and texts relationship enhances the cognition of children.


Conveys Proper Message


Making the child learn about how the world works can be quite difficult. However, illustrations play an important role in doing so. They grasp the attention of the child and make him observe what it has to show. There are also certain ideas and thoughts that cannot be really explained through text, but illustrations play a good role in doing so. First, the child looks at the illustrations to make a concept in his head, then read the text to confirm it.


Makes Reading More Interesting


Books with plain old text can be really boring to read. They do not appeal to the child at all. In such cases, books with illustrations help a lot. The colorful images and visuals help the child in paying more attention to the book with interest. This combination of illustrations and texts together adds to the learning of the child.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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