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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 13 of 13

Story or Facts?

Tell storybooks from fact books, and learn from pictures and words.

What your child practices

Children practice telling books that tell stories from books that give information, and noticing what pictures add to the words.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.19; 1.20 · telling stories from information books and what pictures and words each tell

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A storybook tells a made-up story.
  2. A fact book tells true things.
  3. Photos of real things are often in fact books.

Example: “Bees make honey.” Is this from a story or a fact book? This is true about real bees. True things are in fact books. Answer: a fact book

Story or Facts? in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 13 of 13 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Messages All Around.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A book that tells how real bees make honey. What kind of book is it?

    • a story
    • a fact book

  2. Question 2

    Which one do you find in a story?

    • a chart
    • a glossary
    • a fact box
    • characters

  3. Question 3

    Which book would help you learn how to plant a seed?

    • Mo the Magic Seed
    • The Bean That Could Talk
    • Growing Seeds
    • The Giant's Garden Party

  4. Question 4

    A rabbit puts on a coat and goes to a party. What is this?

    • a story
    • a fact

  5. Question 5

    A picture in a fact book shows the parts of a plant. What does it do?

    • it hides the facts
    • it tells a joke
    • it is a story
    • it helps you learn the parts

  6. Question 6

    You want a bedtime tale about a brave cat. Which book do you pick?

    • a map
    • a story
    • a fact book

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