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

Respond and Find Out

Respond to books with art and poems, and ask questions to find facts.

What your child practices

Your child chooses ways to respond to a story or poem (a drawing, a play, a new ending), asks questions, picks a source to answer them and thinks of ways to remember and share what they learn.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 1W4; 1W6; 1W7 · responding to texts, asking questions and gathering information from sources

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Share how a book made you feel.
  2. To learn something, first ask a question.
  3. Then find facts and share what you learned.

Example: Which question asks where? “Where do bats sleep?” or “Why do bats sleep?” “Where” asks about a place. The first one starts with “Where”. Answer: Where do bats sleep?

Respond and Find Out in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 19 of 19 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Word 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: 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

    A story has a brave little ant. How could you show your favorite part?

    • close the book
    • skip it
    • draw it
    • tear the page

  2. Question 2

    Which is the best way to remember a fact you heard?

    • hide it
    • say nothing
    • draw it or write a word about it
    • forget it

  3. Question 3

    You saw ants carry crumbs on a walk. How can that help you?

    • it tells you something real about ants
    • it tells you about rain
    • it is not useful
    • it is a story

  4. Question 4

    You read a poem about rain. What could you make?

    • a shopping list
    • a lunch menu
    • your own rain poem
    • a math sheet

  5. Question 5

    Which question asks where?

    • Who is that?
    • Where do bats sleep?
    • When is lunch?
    • Why is it red?

  6. Question 6

    Your group asks, “How do birds build nests?” Which helps you answer?

    • a puzzle
    • a book about trains
    • a toy box
    • a book about birds

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