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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 7 of 12

Book Detectives

Letters, words and books

What your child practices

How print works: telling letters, numbers, words and sentences apart, reading left to right and top to bottom, counting words, and what authors and illustrators do.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Reading 1; Reading 8 · how print and books are organized, from the cover to the title page

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A letter is one mark, like N.
  2. A word is a group of letters. Spaces go between words.
  3. We read a book from the front, top to bottom, left to right.

Example: How many words are in “I see a cat”? Count the words: I, see, a, cat. Four words. Answer: 4

Book Detectives in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 7 of 12 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Story Order and before Picture Clues.

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

    Where do we start reading a page?

    • ⬇️At the bottom
    • 🎯In the middle
    • ⬆️At the top

  2. Question 2

    What do we call the person who draws the pictures?

    • 🎨The illustrator
    • ✍️The author
    • 👀The reader

  3. Question 3

    How many words are in this sentence?

    My hat is red.

    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

  4. Question 4

    Where does an English book start?

    • 🔚At the back
    • 📕At the front
    • 🎯In the middle

  5. Question 5

    Which word comes first?

    The sun is hot.

    • hot
    • The
    • is

  6. Question 6

    Which one is a letter?

    • pig
    • H
    • 4

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