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Pebble and the Foggy Morning

Read a tugboat story with three pictures described in words, and explain how the pictures add mood and show what a character is like.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.3.7

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Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain how an illustration sets the mood of a story.
  • Students explain how an illustration shows what a character is like.

How to use

Read the story and the three picture descriptions aloud, and ask students to imagine each picture. Then students answer on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.3.7

Explain how a story's illustrations add to its words, such as by setting a mood or stressing a trait of a character or setting.

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Pebble and the Foggy Morning

See how pictures add to a story.

Read the story and the pictures

This story has three pictures. Each picture is described in words below the story.

Pebble and the Foggy Morning

1Pebble was the smallest tugboat in Harbor Bay. Her paint was bright orange, and her horn made a squeaky toot. The big tugboats teased her about that toot, so Pebble mostly stayed tied to the dock and watched the waves.

2One morning, a thick fog rolled in. A huge ship called the Grand Marlin was coming toward the harbor, but its captain could not see the rocks. Waves slapped against them in the gray. "We need a guide!" the ship's radio crackled. The big tugboats were too far out at sea to hear.

3Pebble's engine rumbled. Her heart thumped. She did not feel brave, but she nosed out into the gray water. She switched on her little lamp. "Follow my light!" she called, and her horn tooted across the water. Toot! Toot!

4Slowly, the Grand Marlin followed the tiny glow. Pebble steered away from the rocks until, at last, the fog thinned and the dock came into view. All the sailors cheered. "Nice tooting," said one of the big tugboats, and Pebble puffed out a happy curl of smoke.

Picture A (goes with paragraph 2): The whole picture is gray and blue. Thick fog covers the page. A huge ship is only a dark shape in the fog, and sharp rocks poke out of the water below it. Far away in one corner, a tiny orange tugboat sits alone.
Picture B (goes with paragraph 3): Pebble sits in the middle of the page, smaller than the waves around her. Her lamp makes a small gold circle in the gray fog. Her chin is lifted, and her smokestack puffs straight up.
Picture C (goes with paragraph 4): The fog is thin, and the sky glows pink and gold like a sunrise. Sailors wave from the deck of the big ship. The big ship follows close behind Pebble, and the dock is near. Pebble's smoke makes a happy curl.

How the pictures add to the words

Use the story and the picture descriptions to answer each question.

1.
Which mood do the gray colors, thick fog and sharp rocks in Picture A give the story?
  • A. playful and silly
  • B. calm and sleepy
  • C. worried and tense
  • D. proud and cheerful
2.
In Picture B, Pebble has her chin lifted and her lamp glowing. What does the picture show about Pebble?
  • A. She is shy and quiet.
  • B. She is bored and sleepy.
  • C. She is silly and careless.
  • D. She is brave and determined.
3.
Read the description of Picture A again. Underline the sentence that tells what the ship could hit.

The whole picture is gray and blue.Thick fog covers the page.A huge ship is only a dark shape in the fog, and sharp rocks poke out of the water below it.Far away in one corner, a tiny orange tugboat sits alone.

4.
Choose the word from the word bank that tells the mood of Picture C.
Word bank: gloomy · hopeful · frightened

The pink and gold colors of Picture C give the story a   mood.

5.
How does the mood change from Picture A to Picture C?
  • A. It goes from silly to sleepy.
  • B. It goes from happy to worried.
  • C. It stays the same in both pictures.
  • D. It goes from worried to happy.
6.
Paragraph 2 says that a thick fog rolled in. What does Picture A add?
  • A. It shows the big tugboats waiting close by, ready to help.
  • B. It shows the ship as only a dark shape in the thick fog.
  • C. It shows the sailors waving and cheering happily from the deck.
  • D. It shows the captain steering the ship with a bright lamp.
7.
Which picture shows each detail? Sort the details.
The sky glows pink and gold.Sharp rocks poke out of the water.A small gold circle of lamp light glows in the gray.Pebble sits alone in a far corner.Sailors wave from the deck of the ship.Pebble's chin is lifted and her smoke puffs straight up.
Picture APicture BPicture C
8.
How do the pictures help a reader of this story?
  • A. They give the same facts that the words already give.
  • B. They show which words in the story are hard to read.
  • C. They add feelings and details the words do not give.
  • D. They tell the reader how long the story will take.
9.
Read the description of Picture C again. Underline the sentence that shows the sailors are happy.

The fog is thin, and the sky glows pink and gold like a sunrise.Sailors wave from the deck of the big ship.The big ship follows close behind Pebble, and the dock is near.Pebble's smoke makes a happy curl.

10.
Choose Picture A, B or C. Explain how it adds to the words of the story. Use a detail from the picture description.

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