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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 14 of 19

Reading Smart

Predict, connect, and use text features.

What your child practices

Practices thinking before and while reading: using what you already know, predicting what happens next, making connections to your own life, using headings and pictures, telling kinds of texts apart and learning topic words.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 1R7; 1R9 · predicting from covers and pictures, making connections and telling kinds of texts apart

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Before reading, think about what you know.
  2. A heading is a bold title above a part.
  3. Topic words, like seed, tell what the book is about.

Example: The word “seed” is a topic word. Which subject is it from? Seeds grow into plants. So it is about plants. Answer: plants

Reading Smart in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 14 of 19 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Story or Facts? and before True, Pretend and Opinions.

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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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 is a list of what to buy?

    • a shopping list
    • a map
    • a poem

  2. Question 2

    A girl packs a bag and puts on boots. What will she do next?

    • swim in a desert
    • go for a walk
    • fall asleep in the sink

  3. Question 3

    The word “map” is a topic word. Which subject is it from?

    • social studies
    • music
    • baking

  4. Question 4

    Which kind of text has made-up characters and events?

    • a recipe
    • a weather report
    • fiction

  5. Question 5

    A chart in a book shows…

    • a made-up story
    • information in a list or grid
    • only colors

  6. Question 6

    A speech bubble in a comic shows…

    • the page number
    • what a character says
    • the title

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