Reading traces allows students to discover the religious dimension in their everyday lives. The chapters connect to the children's experiences and continually provide prompts for further thinking, storytelling, and creativity. The clear chapter structure additionally promotes active, exploratory learning: each chapter begins with one or more images that place the topic within the children's world and activate prior knowledge. At the bottom of each page, there is a task bar with numerous conversation starters, suggestions for deeper reflection, various creative opportunities, and prompts for role or tableau scenes or liturgical elements. Reading traces concludes with the "Trace Search" page, which serves to contextualize the insights gained within the framework of the Bible. Competency-oriented, it offers a summary.