Anagram with Picture

To test vocabulary and spelling, children can be presented with a ‘puzzle’. There is a series of pictures, and opposite each picture is an anagram of the word the picture represents.

Cartoon story

A series of cartoons tell a simple story.

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ letters s e t r s o r u

__ __ __ __ __ letters o s h r e

The instructions are:

Look at the pictures. See what happens. The girl in the pictures is called Sally. Sally writes a letter to her friend David. She tells him what happened.

Gap filling with pictures

This technique may test reading as much as writing. A passage (perhaps a story) is presented in which there are blanks where words are missing. Above each blank there is a pictorial representation of the missing word.

Dear David _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Best wishes Sally

I live in a small by the sea. Every day I go for

a swim. One day, when I came back after a swim I saw a big

. In its mouth was a big .