"Pick a Picture and Write About It" is a worksheet that features two different black-and-white pictures. Students pick just one of the images and write as many ideas as they can about what's happening in the image in the box below.

The final page of the worksheet asks students to identify which picture they chose and provide more concise responses to what's happening in the picture. For example, students have two lines to answer the question, "Best idea I had to describe this picture."

The final page also invites students to add details to their ideas. They write who they think is the main character, and they give the main character a name.

Having students describe what's happening in a picture is a great way to help them practice their observational and descriptive writing skills. There are also many ways you can modify an activity like this, depending on the skills you want your students to practice.

For example, they could write a list of all the things they think are happening in the picture. They could write a story, complete with paragraphs on what they think is happening. They could also use their creative thinking skills to come up with names for the characters and what happens next.

You can make this activity more engaging by allowing students to choose an image they would like to write about. Then, they can get together with a partner to share what they observed about the picture and compare it with what their partner observed.