WH Question Picture Scenes

About this resource

One picture scene, three questions. Every card in this deck is a big picture of someone doing something with a small picture of the place in the corner, and the same three questions printed underneath: "Who is here?" "What is happening?" "Where is this?" A child who cannot yet read a word list still has something to look at and answers in their own words; every answer gets its own written line on the probe forms, so what the child said is on paper and the question missed most is visible. Who, what and where only: this deck does not cover when or why.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 20 pages, 335 type-in fields

Picture Scene Cards

• 12 picture scene cards in full color, each a big cut-apart piece laid edge to edge in a 4-across, 3-down grid, so cutting is five straight cuts. Each scene is one of 8 action pictures (run, walk, ride, sleep, hug, sing, cook, sit) with one of 10 place pictures in the corner (train station, department store, convenience store, apartment building, church, mosque, pagoda, synagogue, post office, office building)
• The same 12 scenes again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier
• The three questions printed on every card, and no answer printed on any card
• A note on the card pages naming the pictures a child may name another way (ride/bike, sleep/bed, sing/microphone, cook/chef, sit/yoga; train station/train, department store/store, convenience store/store, apartment building/houses, pagoda/temple, post office/building, office building/building), so you decide once how that is counted

Probe And Track

• 3 quick probe forms (A, B, C), 4 scenes each: a column for each of the three questions to write the child's answer word for word, a "counted" cell per scene (0, 1, 2 or 3), and a score out of 12. No scene is on two forms; A, B and C together are all 12
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 12 scenes on one sheet, the same three answer columns per scene, a total out of 36
• Data Log -- 17 rows: date, form, counted, out of, percent, notes
• Percent Graph -- 14 probes across, 0-100 percent grid, a field for the team's own criterion
• Caseload Summary -- 16 rows: student, baseline, current, trend, question missed most (who / what / where), decision

Share And Write

• Look and Write -- a student page: a "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, three scenes drawn big with three primary-handwriting answer spaces each (nine in all), room to actually write
• Practice at Home -- a family update built from four of the same scenes used in session, the three questions in plain words, a weekly practice table, and lines for the questions a family heard outside of practice time
• Phrase Bank -- 21 observable-language starters across 6 groups (accuracy, which question, what was said, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page)
• Filled Example -- an invented student, eight probes, every percent re-counted from its own row, plus one session broken out by question

ALSO INSIDE: Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, four section dividers, and a "what's next" back page.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, graph, caseload page, family page and probe-form answer cells, or print and use a pen. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a norm-referenced or standardized test.

It carries no elicitation, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as an answer, a criterion, or a typical rate for answering WH questions -- every one of those is this clinician's own call, written once and reused every session. The WHO reference word printed beside each scene on the teacher forms ("a person", "two people", "a cook", "a singer") is a reference, not the only right answer. It covers who, what and where only; it does not include when or why. Pictures replace the printed word list a child cannot yet read; they do not replace the clinician's scoring rule.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists and special education teams with young or pre-reading students working on answering WH questions, teachers who want a scene-and-three-questions page a writing student can do on their own, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

Pictures: Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0 (color); Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, MIT License (ink-saver black and white).