The image above was produced by the fantastic picture book author / illustrator Oliver Jeffers (‘The Day the Crayons Quit’, ‘Here We Are’, ‘An Alphabet of Stories’ and more…) and shared on social media by David Walliams. I asked Year 6 to use their reading skills of observation and inference to analyse it. The three sentence openers below provide a structure for this:
I observe… (What is right there? What literally can you see?)
I infer… (What have you worked out? What have you ‘read between the lines’? How does what you already know link to this image?)
I question… (What are you now thinking about? What are the wider implications of what you have worked out? What more do you want to know about this?)
Perhaps with an adult you can find other images linked to local and global current affairs and analyse: What is right there? What have I worked out? What am I now thinking about and questioning?
In the comments below, tell me – what do you observe, infer and and question about the image by Oliver Jeffers?
I observe the a part of the world on fire
I infer that the place on fire is Australia
I question when is it going to stop
Brilliant Neve – lets hope the hot weather gives way soon to allow the fires to be controlled.
i observe that a country is on fire (maybe australia)
i infer that the place is australia
i question how did it start 😀
I observe Australia is on fire
I infer that Australia is on fire?
I question how can there be smoke in space 🤔