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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 16 of 16

Stories and Facts

Make-believe stories, true fact books, and ways to respond.

What your child practices

Your child tells storybooks from information books, real from make-believe, and chooses ways to respond to a book, such as drawing a favorite part, acting it out or making a poem.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: KR5; KW4 · telling stories from information books, and responding to a text with a drawing, acting or a poem

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Make-believe stories have things that can’t happen.
  2. Fact books teach true things, like how plants grow.
  3. Words under a picture tell about the picture.

Example: Which one is make-believe? a bus that can fly or a bus on a road? Can a bus really fly? No. So that one is make-believe. Answer: a bus that can fly

Stories and Facts in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 16 of 16 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Feelings and Reasons.

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 book starts, “Once upon a time…” What kind is it?

    • a fact book
    • a menu
    • a story
    • a sign

  2. Question 2

    You read about a lost kitten. How can you show how it felt?

    • clap fast
    • count to ten
    • sing the ABCs
    • make a sad face like it

  3. Question 3

    Which is the best thing to draw after a book about the ocean?

    • a big cake
    • a snowy hill
    • a toy car
    • fish and waves

  4. Question 4

    Which one is a poem?

    • Cats have fur.
    • Feed the cat.
    • The cat is here.
    • Cat in a hat, sat on a mat.

  5. Question 5

    Which book tells about a real fire truck?

    • a book with truck facts
    • a book with a talking truck
    • a book with a magic truck
    • a book with a truck that sings

  6. Question 6

    Your class reads a poem about bugs. What could you make?

    • a list of shoes
    • your own bug poem
    • a lunch menu
    • a math sheet

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