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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 5 of 12

Book Explorers

Titles, captions and kinds of texts

What your child practices

Book words (author, illustrator, title, chapter, table of contents, caption, heading, diagram), fiction and non-fiction, and what letters, recipes, maps and lists are for.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.RI.7 · information from titles, captions and pictures

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The title and the author's name are usually on the front cover.
  2. The author writes the words; the illustrator makes the pictures.
  3. Different texts do different jobs: a letter shares news, a list helps you remember.

Example: Who writes the words in a book? The illustrator draws the pictures. The author writes the words. Answer: the author

Book Explorers in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 5 of 12 in 2nd grade English Language Arts, after Word Power and before Joining Sentences.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    Which text would you send to tell your grandma about your week?

    • 🍲a recipe
    • ✉️a letter
    • 📑a table of contents

  2. Question 2

    What does an illustration mean?

    🖍️
    • the name of the author
    • the last word in a book
    • a picture in a book

  3. Question 3

    You see a page number at the bottom of a page. What does it help you do?

    📄
    • find your place in the book
    • know who drew the pictures
    • know how the story ends

  4. Question 4

    A long book can be split into parts. Each part is called a…

    📚
    • label
    • chapter
    • caption

  5. Question 5

    Which text tells you how to make something, step by step?

    • 🧁a recipe
    • 🎵a poem
    • 💌a birthday card

  6. Question 6

    You want to find facts about owls on a website. Where do you type “owls”?

    • 📄in the page number
    • 📘on the front cover
    • 🔍in the search box

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