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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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Writing 1; Speaking and Listening 2 · 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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, 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: 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

    How can you find out if a ball floats?

    • ask the ball
    • shout at it
    • close your eyes
    • try it in water

  2. Question 2

    Which question asks when?

    • Where is my cup?
    • Who is here?
    • When do birds fly away?
    • What is red?

  3. Question 3

    A grown-up reads you a fact. How can you remember it?

    • run away
    • draw a picture of it
    • forget it
    • close the book fast

  4. Question 4

    How can you find out how many legs a spider has?

    • guess with your eyes shut
    • ask your shoe
    • look at a picture in a spider book
    • count your toes

  5. Question 5

    Which one tells a fact about cats?

    • Who has a cat?
    • Where is the cat?
    • Do cats sleep?
    • Cats have whiskers.

  6. Question 6

    Which is the best place to learn about stars?

    • a book about space
    • a song about cats
    • a book about shoes
    • a cookbook

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