Rice Terrace Picture Clues

One photograph, four questions. Why the steps, where the water goes, why the walls, what happens in heavy rain.

This is inference from an image, which is a reading skill applied to something that is not text. Five year olds are better at it than they are given credit for, particularly when the image is of something they have seen in real life.

Most children in the region have seen terraces from a road and never once wondered about them.

The page has the image, the four questions with space for scribed answers, and the explanation for the adult so you can confirm or extend what the children propose. Their answers about the walls are usually right. Their answers about the water are usually half right and worth building on rather than correcting.