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.
California Content Standards learning standard: RL.1.5; RI.1.6 · telling stories from information books and what pictures and words each tell
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
A rabbit puts on a coat and goes to a party. What is this?
- a story
- a fact
a story
Hint: Real rabbits don't wear coats or go to parties.
Question 2
A book has a photo of a real whale. What kind of book is it?
- a song book
- a story
- a fact book
a fact book
Hint: Photos of real things are often in fact books.
Question 3
A picture in a fact book shows the parts of a plant. What does it do?
- it hides the facts
- it is a story
- it helps you learn the parts
- it tells a joke
it helps you learn the parts
Hint: Pictures in fact books teach too.
Question 4
Why do people read fact books?
- to learn true things
- to hear a made-up tale
- to sing a song
- to meet a dragon
to learn true things
Hint: Fact books give information.
Question 5
The words say a bird is small. What can the picture add?
- what the bird looks like
- the end of the book
- a joke
- what the bird said
what the bird looks like
Hint: A picture shows what something looks like.
Question 6
You want a bedtime tale about a brave cat. Which book do you pick?
- a map
- a fact book
- a story
a story
Hint: A tale is a story.