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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 14 of 14

Story Friends

Characters, settings, fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes.

What your child practices

Your child names characters and settings and recognizes fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes they may know from read-alouds.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.7(B); K.7(D); K.8(A); K.8(B) · characters, settings, fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Characters are who the story is about.
  2. The setting is where and when the story happens.
  3. Fables teach a lesson, like “slow and steady wins.”

Example: Ben the bear looks for honey in the woods. Who is the character? Who is the story about? Ben the bear. Answer: Ben the bear

Story Friends in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 14 of 14 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Change a Letter.

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

    What is the lesson of “The Tortoise and the Hare”?

    • never race
    • sleep a lot
    • always run fast
    • slow and steady wins

  2. Question 2

    In the rhyme, where did Jack and Jill go?

    • up the hill
    • to the shop
    • to the sea
    • to bed

  3. Question 3

    Nursery rhymes often have words that…

    • are in a list
    • rhyme
    • are numbers
    • are very long

  4. Question 4

    Mia the cat naps in the kitchen. What is the setting?

    • the cat
    • Mia
    • a nap
    • the kitchen

  5. Question 5

    Which one is most likely a setting?

    • a brave girl
    • a happy dog
    • a dark forest
    • a big smile

  6. Question 6

    Why didn't the brick house fall down?

    • it rained
    • bricks are strong
    • the pigs left
    • the wolf slept

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