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.
California Content Standards learning standard: W.K.8; SL.K.3 · asking questions and finding answers in books, pictures and from people
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
You want to know what frogs eat. Who can you ask?
- a chair
- your shoe
- a grown-up who knows
- a crayon
a grown-up who knows
Hint: Ask a person who can help you find out.
Question 2
Which question asks when?
- Where is my cup?
- Who is here?
- What is red?
- When do birds fly away?
When do birds fly away?
Hint: When asks about a time.
Question 3
Which is a good question about fish?
- How do fish breathe?
- Blue water.
- Fish.
- I am a fish.
How do fish breathe?
Hint: A question asks something and ends with ?
Question 4
Which mark ends a question?
- .
- !
- ,
- ?
?
Hint: A question mark looks like a hook with a dot.
Question 5
Which word can start a question?
- The
- Why
- Stop
- Yes
Why
Hint: Why, who, what, where and when start questions.
Question 6
A book says bats sleep in the day. How can you check?
- look in another bat book
- guess
- skip it
- ask a bat
look in another bat book
Hint: Two books can help you check a fact.