Picture Clues Show the Big Idea

Pictures are big helpers. If you look at every picture in a book, you can often tell what it is mostly about.

Imagine a book with pictures of a red apple, a yellow banana, purple grapes and an orange. Every picture shows a fruit!

So the book is mostly about fruit. When the pictures keep showing the same kind of thing, that's your big idea.

• 1Look at all the pictures
• 2Notice what is the same
• 3The same thing again and again is a clue