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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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Reading 8; Reading 9 · telling stories from information books and what pictures and words each tell

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A storybook tells a made-up story.
  2. A fact book tells true things.
  3. Photos of real things are often in fact books.

Example: “Bees make honey.” Is this from a story or a fact book? This is true about real bees. True things are in fact books. Answer: a fact book

Story or Facts? in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 13 of 13 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Messages All Around.

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: Maine 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

    A book about a pig who flies a plane. Is it a story or a fact book?

    • a story
    • a fact book

  2. Question 2

    Why do people read fact books?

    • to hear a made-up tale
    • to meet a dragon
    • to learn true things
    • to sing a song

  3. Question 3

    A book has a photo of a real whale. What kind of book is it?

    • a story
    • a song book
    • a fact book

  4. Question 4

    A fact book says frogs lay eggs. The picture shows eggs. What is true?

    • the picture is wrong
    • the words and picture tell the same fact
    • the words are made up
    • frogs lay rocks

  5. Question 5

    A picture in a fact book shows the parts of a plant. What does it do?

    • it helps you learn the parts
    • it hides the facts
    • it tells a joke
    • it is a story

  6. Question 6

    A book has bold words and a glossary. What kind of book is it?

    • a poem
    • a story
    • a fact book

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