Hide and Peep
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Approach:  Station
ACCESS
Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Matching text with pictures  
Resources:
5 cards
FRAME 348Kb
Questions/instructions:  
1. Look at the pictures below.
2. Read the story cards.
3. Match each story card to its correct picture. The story cards need to match what is happening in the pictures.
4. Write the number from the story card in the box beside its matching picture.
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% responses
2008 ('04)
y4
y8
Card 1:
boy with hands over face
78 (79)
94 (93)
Card 2:
boy, girl, egg
69 (71)
86 (86)
Card 3:
sunny “Park” picture
86 (85)
97 (93)
Card 4:
egg cracking
35 (38)
61 (63)
Card 5:
boy on path
59 (62)
83 (81)

Total score:
5
23 (24)
52 (52)
4
29 (32)
29 (27)
3
20 (20)
10 (13)
2
14 (10)
6 (3)
0–1
14 (14)
3 (5)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
About one quarter of year 4 students and half of year 8 students correctly matched all five reading passages with corresponding pictures from the nine pictures available. Performance was very similar in 2004 and 2008.