First Reading: Peter Rabbit

FIRST READING: ILLUSTRATIONS – THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT

 

During the First Reading, your child and you will study the illustrations to infer what they tell us about the story. You will look at the evidence in the prints to form predictions about who the characters are, what the problem in the story is, and how a solution is reached. If the pages in your book are not numbered, the page on which the text begins is page 1. The story’s first illustration is on page 6.

 

Talk about what tale means. (a story about some event)

 

Page 6:

~How many rabbits are in the picture?

~Who do you think the large rabbit is?

 

Page 9:

~Who do you think is happening here?

~How does the bunny in the blue jacket seem to be feeling?

 

Pages 13 – 29:

Make up a little story about this set of illustrations. Include: who the rabbits are, where they are, and what they are doing. Also, include any information about how they might be feeling in the illustrations. When you come to an illustration that focuses on a character’s face, talk about the emotions and what the cause of the emotions might be.

 

Pages 30 – 33:

The lone shoe is a perfect place to make a prediction about why the shoe is in the illustration all by itself.

~What might the bird be thinking?

 

Pages 34 – 38:

~What is happening to Peter in these illustrations?

~How are the birds involved?

~Whose hands are in the illustration?

~How does Peter escape from the net?

 

Pages 41 – 46:

~What is happening in this set of illustrations?

~Whose shoe is shown on page 45?

~It looks like Peter is wet on page 46. How did he get wet?

 

Pages 49 – 50:

~Looking at the evidence in the illustrations, what is happening?

~How is Peter feeling? Why?

 

Pages 53 – 58:

Make up a little story to explain what is happening to Peter in this set of illustrations.

 

Page 61:

~What do you see?

~Who hung the jacket and the shoes on the wooden poles? Why?

 

Pages 62 – 69:

~Where are these illustrations taking place?

~Find Peter in each illustration. Is he in the illustration on page 69? Where could he be?

~How does the story end?

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