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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 7 of 14

Book Detectives

Letters, words and books

What your child practices

How print works: telling letters, numbers, words and sentences apart, reading left to right and top to bottom, counting words, and what authors and illustrators do.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.2(D) · the parts of a book, reading left to right, and letters and words

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A letter is one mark, like N.
  2. A word is a group of letters. Spaces go between words.
  3. We read a book from the front, top to bottom, left to right.

Example: How many words are in “I see a cat”? Count the words: I, see, a, cat. Four words. Answer: 4

Book Detectives in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 7 of 14 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Story Order and before Picture 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: 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

    Which one is a number?

    • 7
    • D
    • dog

  2. Question 2

    Which one is a word?

    • 7
    • K
    • run

  3. Question 3

    What goes between two words?

    • A picture
    • A number
    • A space

  4. Question 4

    How many words are in this sentence?

    My hat is red.

    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

  5. Question 5

    Which word comes first?

    Look at the moon.

    • at
    • the
    • Look

  6. Question 6

    At the end of a line, where do we read next?

    • ⬅️The same line again
    • ⬆️Back to the top
    • ↙️The next line down

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