Image adapted from Edward de Deene, De warachtighe fabvlen der dieren, Brugghe, 1567, plate 26. Aesop's fable of the grasshopper and the ant. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b06025/>.

Adapted from Aesop’s The Ants & the Grasshopper (620-560 BCE)

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants was bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

Which of the following can we learn from looking at the illustration, but not from reading the passage?

Image adapted from the book “The Aesop for Children: with Pictures by Milo Winter,”. Aesop’s fable The Astrologer. Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, <http://read.gov/aesop/100.html>.

Adapted from Aesop’s The Astrologer (620-560 BCE)

A man who lived a long time ago believed that he could read the future in the stars. He called himself an Astrologer and spent his time at night gazing at the sky.

One evening he was walking along the open road outside the village. His eyes were fixed on the stars. He thought he saw there that the end of the world was at hand, when all at once, down he went into a hole full of mud and water.

There he stood up to his ears, in the muddy water, and madly clawing at the slippery sides of the hole in his effort to climb out.

His cries for help soon brought the villagers running. As they pulled him out of the mud, one of them said: "You pretend to read the future in the stars, and yet you fail to see what is at your feet! This may teach you to pay more attention to what is right in front of you, and let the future take care of itself." "What use is it," said another, "to read the stars, when you can't see what's right here on the earth?"

Which of the following can we learn from looking at the illustration, but not from reading the passage?

If a class is reading a non-fiction text about the way energy moves through different members of an ecosystem why might the author include a photo like the one below?

Which text feature(s) listed below is an example of a visual way to enhance a text?

This is a map of different active volcanoes in California and their hazard levels and zones. An author wants to include this in the text she is currently writing. It is a non-fiction text about the hazards of volcanoes. Which title would most likely fit her desired genre, topic, and visual text feature?