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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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: RL.1.5; RI.1.6 · 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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, 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: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

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

    “Cats have whiskers.” Is this from a story or a fact book?

    • a story
    • a fact book

  2. Question 2

    Which one do you find in a fact book?

    • a dragon
    • a magic hat
    • a talking cat
    • true facts

  3. Question 3

    Why do people read fact books?

    • to meet a dragon
    • to sing a song
    • to hear a made-up tale
    • to learn true things

  4. Question 4

    What do captions in a fact book do?

    • tell about the pictures
    • sing a song
    • name the villain
    • tell the ending

  5. Question 5

    Which part helps you find facts fast?

    • the problem
    • the table of contents
    • the ending
    • the main character

  6. Question 6

    A book has bold words and a glossary. What kind of book is it?

    • a fact book
    • a story
    • a poem

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