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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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: K.W.8; K.SL.3 · 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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, 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: 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 mark ends a question?

    • .
    • !
    • ?
    • ,

  2. Question 2

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

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

  3. Question 3

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

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

  4. Question 4

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

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

  5. Question 5

    You want to learn about the moon. What helps most?

    • a sock
    • a toy car
    • a picture book about the moon
    • a book about pizza

  6. Question 6

    You want to know what a plant needs. What can you do?

    • throw the seeds away
    • eat the plant
    • ask, look in a book and watch a plant
    • stop asking

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