Year 4 The Wild Robot': book club worksheet

“What the pictures add” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 English unit “The Wild Robot': book club”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Week 30 of the year, 2 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

What the pictures add

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can explain what an illustration can show that the words do not say.

A Look back3 min

1.
Roz walked past the pond. Which word names a place?
walkedpondpast
2.
Roz shouted, "The otters are coming _" Which mark goes in the gap?
.?!
3.
The den belongs to one cub. Which spelling is right?
cubs dencub's dencubs' den

B Watch me, then you4 min

A fox sits on a hill. Read the words, then look at the picture.

A fox on a grassy hill at dusk, with three cubs peeking from bramble.

Watch me

The words say: The fox waited on the hill.

The picture shows three cubs hiding in the bramble.

The words never mention the cubs, so the picture adds them.

Now you

1.
The words say: The robot sat by the pond. Imagine a picture of the robot by the pond, with a frog on a rock. Which detail does the picture add?
a frog on a rockthe ponda robot

C Your turn6 min

Read the words. Look at the map. Choose the thing the map shows that the words do not say.

A wild island with reeds, a pond and a sandy shore

1.
The words say: Roz walked to the hill. Which thing does the map show that the words do not?
a ponda hillRoz
2.
The words say: Roz found food by the lodge. Which thing does the map show that the words do not?
fooda treea lodge
3.
The words say: The otters swam at dusk. Which thing does the map show that the words do not?
the ottersa hilldusk
4.
The words say: Brightbill waited. Which thing does the map show that the words do not?
Brightbillwaitinga park

Say it out loud: What changed from one row to the next? Which part of the picture did you check first?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A robot and a hedgehog in a garden at dusk

Kit says: “The pictures only copy the words, so I can skip them.”

1.
The words say: The robot stood in the garden. Look at the picture. Write one detail a reader misses if they skip it.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
The words say: Roz the robot walked across the island. Choose one thing on this map the words leave out. Write one sentence that adds it.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

What the pictures add · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. pond your child picked walked, which is an action word. Ask: can you point to it? A noun names a thing or place, so point to the pond.

2. ! If your child picked a full stop, ask them to read the line aloud with a shout. Strong feeling and shouting need an exclamation mark.

3. cub's den If your child picked cubs' den, that puts the apostrophe after the s, which means many cubs share the den. Ask: how many cubs own it?

B

1. a frog on a rock

C

1. a pond If your child picked a hill, the words already say that. Ask: which thing is on the map but not in the sentence?

2. a tree

3. a hill If your child picked the otters, the words name them already. Ask: which symbol on the map is not in the sentence?

4. a park

D

1. Look for: Names one thing in the picture that the words do not say, such as the hedgehog, the lantern or the dusk sky. If your child writes that the picture only repeats the words, ask them to look at the hedgehog and the lantern. Those are not in the words.

E

1. Look for: One sentence that names a map symbol not mentioned in the given words, and fits the story.

Words to use

Say“What did the picture show that the words did not? How do you know?”

Instead of“The pictures are just there to make the book look nice.”

After the sheet

Choose a picture book at home. Cover the words, describe the picture aloud, then read the words and say what the picture added.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

One more sheet comes with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Feelings change in stories(with a plan)

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