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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 5 of 12

Book Explorers

Titles, captions and kinds of texts

What your child practices

Book words (author, illustrator, title, chapter, table of contents, caption, heading, diagram), fiction and non-fiction, and what letters, recipes, maps and lists are for.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 2.1.5.2; 2.1.5.3 · captions, bold print and pictures in information texts

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The title and the author's name are usually on the front cover.
  2. The author writes the words; the illustrator makes the pictures.
  3. Different texts do different jobs: a letter shares news, a list helps you remember.

Example: Who writes the words in a book? The illustrator draws the pictures. The author writes the words. Answer: the author

Book Explorers in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 5 of 12 in 2nd grade English Language Arts, after Word Power and before Joining Sentences.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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

    Which title sounds like a made-up story (fiction)?

    • 🫖The Talking Teapot
    • 🦌Facts About Deer
    • 🌧️How Rain Forms

  2. Question 2

    Where in a story do you meet the characters and the setting?

    📖
    • the very last word
    • the beginning
    • the back cover

  3. Question 3

    Which text helps you find your way to a place?

    • 📝a shopping list
    • 🗺️a map
    • 😂a joke book

  4. Question 4

    A book with true facts about real animals is…

    🐻
    • a fairy tale
    • non-fiction
    • a made-up story

  5. Question 5

    A word doesn't make sense when you read it. What can you do?

    🔁
    • reread the sentence and check
    • skip every word after it
    • close the book forever

  6. Question 6

    A letter often starts with which word?

    ✉️
    • Dear
    • Chapter
    • Ingredients

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