Inferencing with Pictures Describing Pictures Speech Therapy & Vocabulary Set 1

Give students a much easier way into language and writing with these detailed, funny inferencing with pictures activities. Instead of facing a blank page, students search a busy scene, talk through what they notice, build everyday vocabulary, write about people and actions, use picture clues to make inferences, and create a story.

This 104-page resource includes 26 hidden picture activities. Every I Spy picture mat is followed by three connected pages, helping students move naturally from noticing visual details to discussing, writing, and storytelling.

What’s Included

Each I Spy picture mat includes:

• A detailed hidden-picture scene with actions and items to find
• A Roll, Read & Respond page for oral language, discussion, and written responses
• A sentence-writing and inferencing page with four people to describe and four open-ended questions
• A beginning, middle, and end story-planning page

I Spy Picture Mats

• Trouble at Cozy Cafe
• Study Break Gone Wrong
• The World’s Messiest Supermarket
• The Great Indoor Water Park
• Swinging into Trouble
• Picnic Problems Everywhere
• The Mystery Library Cat
• Printer Problems and Paper Panic
• Computer Lab Chaos
• Beach Day Blunders
• Frozen Food Frenzy
• Supermarket Mayhem
• Supermarket Slip-Ups
• Food Court Frenzy
• Mall Mayhem
• Playground Pandemonium
• Picnic Park Pandemonium
• Kite Festival Chaos
• Picnic Contest Day
• School Swimming Carnival Chaos
• The Library Mix-Up
• Park Picnic Problems
• Cinema Snack Attack

The scenes support picture prompts for writing, vocabulary activities, visual literacy activities, sentence writing activities, descriptive writing, creative writing, and narrative writing prompts without making students feel like they are doing the same worksheet 400 times in different hats.

They are especially helpful for middle school ELA, middle school writing, ELL activities, ESL activities, EAL activities, speech therapy activities, language intervention, special education resources, SPED writing activities, reading intervention, and writing intervention. They also work beautifully for small group activities, writing center activities, no prep ELA, print and go activities, early finisher activities, critical thinking activities, and students who need support with making inferences.