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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 5 of 17

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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: 2R7 · information from titles, captions and pictures

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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 5 of 17 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: 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

    Who draws the pictures in a book?

    • 📚the librarian
    • 🎨the illustrator
    • ✍️the author

  2. Question 2

    Why do some books print a word in bold, dark letters?

    • to show it is an important word
    • to show the word is not needed
    • because the printer made a mistake

  3. Question 3

    Who writes the words in a book?

    • 🎨the illustrator
    • ✍️the author
    • 📖the reader

  4. Question 4

    Where do you usually find the title and the author's name?

    • 🌳inside a picture of a tree
    • 📄on the last page only
    • 📘on the front cover

  5. Question 5

    A book about frogs has the heading “What Frogs Eat”. What will that part tell?

    🐸
    • where the author lives
    • how to build a boat
    • what frogs eat

  6. Question 6

    Which part of a book lists the chapters and their page numbers?

    📑
    • the front cover
    • the table of contents
    • a caption

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