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Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 14

Ask and Find Out

Ask questions and look for answers

What your child practices

Children practice asking who, what, where, when and why questions and choosing where to look for answers: a book, a grown-up, a picture or a simple test. This is the research and inquiry part of the standards.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.12(A); K.12(C) · asking questions and finding answers in books, pictures and from people

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Question words ask different things: who, what, where, when.
  2. “When” asks about time. “Where” asks about a place.
  3. Books and pictures can help us find answers.

Example: Which question asks where? “Where do bees live?” or “What do bees eat?” “Where” asks about a place. The first one starts with “Where”. Answer: Where do bees live?

Ask and Find Out in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 12 of 14 in Kindergarten English Language Arts, after Word Parts & Meanings and before 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

    Which mark ends a question?

    • ?
    • !
    • ,
    • .

  2. Question 2

    You want to know what frogs eat. Who can you ask?

    • a crayon
    • a grown-up who knows
    • a chair
    • your shoe

  3. Question 3

    You want to learn about teeth. Who could you ask?

    • a bus
    • a rabbit
    • a dentist
    • a tree

  4. Question 4

    Which question asks where?

    • What is it?
    • When is lunch?
    • Who is that?
    • Where do owls sleep?

  5. Question 5

    You want to learn about the moon. What helps most?

    • a picture book about the moon
    • a book about pizza
    • a sock
    • a toy car

  6. Question 6

    Your teacher shows a video about ducks. What can you learn?

    • how cars are made
    • how ducks swim and what they eat
    • how to bake bread
    • what a lion eats

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