Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 11 of 11
Real or Imaginary
Share ideas about real and make-believe things
What your child practises
Read both stories and fact books together and ask: could this really happen? Then invite your child to draw, tell or act out a story of their own.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Share understandings of ideas and information about people, places, or things that are real or imaginary.; Express ideas and information creatively. · sharing ideas about real and imaginary people, places and things, and sharing them creatively
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Rin acts out a duck in a play. What is Rin doing?
🦆- washing dishes
- sleeping
- sharing an idea by acting
Show answer
sharing an idea by acting
Hint: Acting is one way to share a story.
Question 2
Which place is real?
📚- a castle in the clouds
- a house made of cake
- a library in your town
Show answer
a library in your town
Hint: A library is a real place you can visit.
Question 3
Which could be a story you make up?
- It snowed on Monday
- The bus stops at school
- A bear who drives a bus
Show answer
A bear who drives a bus
Hint: Bears do not drive, so this is a made-up story.
Question 4
Real or make-believe? Tap a picture, then its basket.
Sort into: 🌎 Real · ✨ Make-believe
- 🦆duck
- 🧚fairy
- 🐉dragon
- 🧜mermaid
- 🐄cow
- 🚌bus
Show answer
🌎 Real: duck, cow, bus · ✨ Make-believe: fairy, dragon, mermaid
Hint: Real things are in our world. Make-believe things are from stories we imagine.
Question 5
Tell a story. Tap the pictures in order: first, next, last.
- 🛝play outside
- ⏰wake up
- 🛏️go to bed
Show answer
wake up → play outside → go to bed
Hint: A story has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Question 6
A book shows how a seed grows into a bean plant. It is…
🌱- a song
- make-believe
- real information
Show answer
real information
Hint: Books that tell facts about the world share real information.