PICTOGRAPHS by Lisa Colozza Cocca illustrated by Kathleen Petelinsek
CHAPTER ONE What Is a Pictograph You can compare amounts of crayon colors with a pictograph Do you ever have to count and compare things A pictograph can help It’s a kind of number picture If you want to compare the numbers of blue crayons and green crayons a pictograph can help You can compare other colors too Pictographs can also show how things change over time A pictograph can show how many pencils you’ve used during the school year Pictographs are easy to read and fun to make You’ll see Let’s get started 4
A pictograph has many parts LABEL what was counted TITLE what the pictograph is about CRAYONS SYMBOL what was counted one picture equals a specific number BLUE GREEN COLOR KEY 1 CRAYON S N O Y A R C F O R E B M U N 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 SCALE how many LABEL type of thing counted LABEL different groups counted KEY how many each symbol represents one picture of a crayon equals one crayon counted 5
