Rebus story for reading and writing emphasizes pictures that represent words, sounds, or syllables. It helps students to understand particular phonemes. In this learning concept, students will know what rebus reading is and writing, along with examples and common errors to avoid.
Students will come across:
Every concept is elaborated for students of class 1 English with the help of examples, illustrations, and concept maps. Once you go through a concept, assess your learning by solving the two printable worksheets given at the end of the page.
Download the rebus reading and writing worksheet and check your answers with the worksheet solutions provided in PDF format.
The first step is to guess the word by looking at the picture.
In the above example the words are: Pig + Kite
First, we subtracted ‘g’ from the word ‘pig’ and the remaining letters are ‘pi’.
Second, we omit ‘e’ from the word ‘kite and the remaining letters are ‘e’.
After that, we will add ‘pi’ and ‘e’ to get the meaningful word.
The images used in the above example are not at all relevant but the sound or the letters of the words helped to form a meaningful word. This is called rebus reading and writing.
Today is my birthday. My mother baked a cake for me and my father decorated the house with balloons. All my friends came to my party.
They all bought gifts for me. My parents served everyone tasty snacks and slices of cake. My favorite gift was a bike that my aunt gifted me.
In the above example, we just use images in the place of words. Students have to look at the picture and guess the correct words.
Rules for rebus reading and writing:Don’t miss out on any hints that will be given in the sentences or the images. Otherwise, the word will be different and the meaning of the entire sentence will be changed.