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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 15 of 17

Story or Facts?

Tell storybooks from fact books, and learn from pictures and words.

What your child practices

Children practice telling books that tell stories from books that give information, and noticing what pictures add to the words.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.9(D); 1.10(C) · telling stories from information books, and what pictures and words each tell

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A storybook tells a made-up story.
  2. A fact book tells true things.
  3. Photos of real things are often in fact books.

Example: “Bees make honey.” Is this from a story or a fact book? This is true about real bees. True things are in fact books. Answer: a fact book

Story or Facts? in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 15 of 17 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Messages All Around and before Long Vowels & Vowel Teams.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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 rabbit puts on a coat and goes to a party. What is this?

    • a story
    • a fact

  2. Question 2

    Which book is most likely a story?

    • The Bear Who Lost His Hat
    • All About Bears
    • How Bears Sleep
    • Bear Facts

  3. Question 3

    Which book is most likely a fact book?

    • The Frog Prince
    • All About Frogs
    • The Frog Who Sang
    • Freddy Frog's Big Day

  4. Question 4

    “Once upon a time, a mouse found a key.” What kind of book is it?

    • a story
    • a fact book

  5. Question 5

    Which one do you find in a story?

    • a chart
    • characters
    • a fact box
    • a glossary

  6. Question 6

    You want a bedtime tale about a brave cat. Which book do you pick?

    • a story
    • a fact book
    • a map

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