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44 picture composition booklets

Turn familiar momentsinto stories of their own.

Hobbies, shopping, getting along, weather and the environment can all start a story. Explore the pictures and questions, decide what happens, then describe the events and ending in the child’s own sentences.

A child points to picture cards while a parent listens, with an open notebook and pencil on the desk.
Story-planning illustration: let the child explain their own ideas from the pictures.

Three pages, three parts of practice

  1. 1

    Plan from pictures

    Three pictures and four guiding questions help organise people and events.

  2. 2

    Write your own story

    Use the lined writing page to turn your ideas into sentences.

  3. 3

    Compare a model answer

    After writing, explore another way to express the story and choose something to improve.

Levels

Choose a level and topic, or explore a practical guide first. The approaches below are suggestions for practice; adapt them to your child and the actual task.

P4

14 booklets · 2 credits each

Use who, where, what happens and how it ends to give the story a shape.

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P5

16 booklets · 3 credits each

Identify a time or reason relationship before choosing expressions such as while, so or before.

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P6

14 booklets · 3 credits each

Use a specific action or dialogue to explain a response, rather than adding several adjectives alone.

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An active subscription is required. Use plan credits to download: P4 costs 2 credits; P5–P6 cost 3 each.

Explore a method before practising

Two children watch from the ground as a park keeper retrieves a green kite from a tree with a long pole.

Writing guides · P4

How to start P4 picture composition with four guiding questions

Help a P4 learner turn pictures into a story using four planning questions, an original worked example and a short exercise with an explained answer.

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In a school garden, two children hold a plant while a caretaker offers a spare pot beside a broken one.

Writing guides · P4 / P5 / P6

How to write an ending for a picture composition

Help a primary learner write an ending that follows the pictures, with two original examples and a short exercise about actions, feelings and what happens next.

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