Grade 2 · English Language Arts · Unit 6 of 7
Book Explorers
Titles, captions and kinds of texts
What your child practises
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.
Yukon Curriculum learning standard: Story/text: text features and vocabulary associated with texts; how different text structures reflect different purposes
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Before reading, you look at the cover and pictures to guess what will happen. That is…
🔮- making a prediction
- writing a list
- skipping the book
making a prediction
Hint: Good readers make predictions, then read to check them.
Question 2
What does an illustration mean?
🖍️- a picture in a book
- the name of the author
- the last word in a book
a picture in a book
Hint: Illustrations are pictures that go with the words.
Question 3
A drawing with labels that shows the parts of something is a…
🌱- story
- poem
- diagram
diagram
Hint: A diagram uses a picture and labels, like one that shows the parts of a plant.
Question 4
Which text would you send to tell your grandma about your week?
- 📑a table of contents
- 🍲a recipe
- ✉️a letter
✉️ a letter
Hint: A letter is written to a person. It starts with “Dear”.
Question 5
A photo shows a tall tree. The caption says “A cedar can grow very tall.” What does the caption do?
🌲- it tells about the photo
- it lists the chapters
- it tells the end of a story
it tells about the photo
Hint: Captions explain what you see in a picture.
Question 6
Which one is a non-fiction book?
- 👑Princess Bee and the Magic Hive
- 🐝All About Bees
- 🌙The Bee Who Flew to the Moon
🐝 All About Bees
Hint: Non-fiction books give true facts. Bees can't fly to the moon!