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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 5 of 14

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.9(D); 2.10(C) · 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 5 of 14 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: 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

    Who draws the pictures in a book?

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

  2. Question 2

    Which text helps you find your way to a place?

    • 📝a shopping list
    • 🗺️a map
    • 😂a joke book

  3. Question 3

    A letter often starts with which word?

    ✉️
    • Dear
    • Chapter
    • Ingredients

  4. Question 4

    A recipe has a part called “What you need”. What will it list?

    🥣
    • the characters
    • the things to cook with
    • the chapters

  5. Question 5

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

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

  6. Question 6

    Before reading, you look at the cover and pictures to guess what will happen. That is…

    🔮
    • writing a list
    • skipping the book
    • making a prediction

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