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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 12

Ask and Find Out

Ask questions and look for answers

What your child practices

Children practice asking who, what, where, when and why questions and choosing where to look for answers: a book, a grown-up, a picture or a simple test. This is the research and inquiry part of the standards.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: K.4; K.39 · asking questions and finding answers in books, pictures and from people

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Question words ask different things: who, what, where, when.
  2. “When” asks about time. “Where” asks about a place.
  3. Books and pictures can help us find answers.

Example: Which question asks where? “Where do bees live?” or “What do bees eat?” “Where” asks about a place. The first one starts with “Where”. Answer: Where do bees live?

Ask and Find Out in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 12 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Word Parts & Meanings.

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

    You wonder why leaves fall. What do you do first?

    • stop wondering
    • ask a question
    • go to sleep
    • hide

  2. Question 2

    You and a friend want to learn about ants. What can you do?

    • go home
    • look for answers together
    • argue about it
    • hide the book

  3. Question 3

    Which one tells a fact about cats?

    • Who has a cat?
    • Where is the cat?
    • Do cats sleep?
    • Cats have whiskers.

  4. Question 4

    A book shows a dog. What can the picture teach you?

    • what a fish eats
    • how tall a tree is
    • how a car goes
    • what a dog looks like

  5. Question 5

    Where on a book can you see what it is about?

    • the cover
    • the window
    • your shoe
    • the floor

  6. Question 6

    Your teacher shows a video about ducks. What can you learn?

    • what a lion eats
    • how cars are made
    • how ducks swim and what they eat
    • how to bake bread

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