Name: What do pictures bring to a story? | Reading | Khan Academy
Uploaded: 2020-04-28T18:25:59.000Z
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and it has pictures in it, don't skip them.

You could be missing out on a wealth of information

to help them understand stories even better.

Pictures can help describe the mood of a story

If I'm telling a story about a girl and her dad

but then when you see an image of those woods

what does that tell you about the mood of the story?

Pictures can help describe the events of a story.

Maybe the story's a little unspecific, say, for instance,

we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood,

and it says, "The big bad wolf swallows Granny up

And we can look at an illustration like this and say:

Okay, that big bulge in the wolf's stomach

And pictures can help fill in important details.

I can look at a character's expression as I'm reading

What's going on there with the face of the wolf?

but then the picture can tell me the rest of the story.

The wolf, for example, the face he's making

with his eyes narrowed and his brows knit like that

and that smile creeping across his features,

He's also putting on Granny's bonnet and glasses.

We know these aren't things wolves are known to wear.

So he's eaten Granny, he's putting on her clothes.

He seems really happy about it, but in an evil way,

and we can use that to inform the way we read the story.

This wolf isn't satisfied with eating an old woman.

He wants to eat her grandkid for dessert.

So greedy, what a greedy, mean little beast!

The point is that pictures in stories are really useful.

Understanding images will make you a stronger reader,

why then, you can learn anything, David out.

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