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Kindergarten · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 14

Find Out & Sort

Find information, sort it and compare.

What your child practices

Practices finding information in spoken, picture, object and print sources, sorting things by one rule, using tools such as a ruler or magnifying glass, and comparing things by how they are alike and different.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.13(C); K.13(D) · gathering information from pictures, people and objects, and sorting it

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Sorting means putting things into groups.
  2. Compare: how are they the same? How different?
  3. We find out by looking, asking and reading.

Example: Dog, cat, car. Which does not belong with animals? A dog is an animal. A cat is an animal. A car is not alive. Answer: car

Find Out & Sort in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 9 of 14 in Kindergarten Social Studies, after Days, Weeks & Months and before Flags & Pledges.

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

    Compare summer and winter. One difference is…

    • winter is hotter
    • winter is colder
    • winter has no days

  2. Question 2

    You sort shoes by who wears them. Which group is for you?

    • Kids' shoes
    • Pets' shoes
    • Grown-ups' shoes

  3. Question 3

    A picture is a…

    • sound source
    • smell source
    • visual source

  4. Question 4

    Which tool helps you take a picture?

    • a cup
    • a camera
    • a mop

  5. Question 5

    A toy plane is a…

    • material source
    • song
    • story

  6. Question 6

    After looking at a picture, you can tell your class…

    • to be quiet
    • what you found out
    • nothing

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