Create a Think Aloud chart. (Use a piece of chart paper and put the title of the book at the top. List the following questions and record students’ answers.)
What do you notice as you are looking at the illustrations in the book?
What do the pictures tell us about the people in the story?
What clues do you have about who they are, where they come from, or what culture they might belong to?
What do the pictures tell us about what events or activities might happen in the story?
How do pictures help us to understand stories? What do they add that the words might not?