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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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 0.2.7.1; 0.1.4.1 · asking questions in shared research and answering questions about key details

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, 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: 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 question asks when?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which is a good question about rain?

    • Red is fun.
    • Where does rain come from?
    • I like my hat.
    • Rain.

  3. Question 3

    You have a question in class. What do you do?

    • yell out loud
    • hide it
    • put up your hand
    • leave the room

  4. Question 4

    You want to learn about teeth. Who could you ask?

    • a rabbit
    • a tree
    • a bus
    • a dentist

  5. Question 5

    Which question asks where?

    • Where do owls sleep?
    • Who is that?
    • What is it?
    • When is lunch?

  6. Question 6

    A book says bats sleep in the day. How can you check?

    • guess
    • skip it
    • look in another bat book
    • ask a bat

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