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English · Kindergarten

Ask and Answer about Informational Text

Using an original read-aloud fact text, How Seeds Travel, children find the main topic and key details, ask and answer questions about the text, learn what titles, pictures, labels and captions do, and tell how two things in a text are alike and different. A new text about sea turtles checks transfer.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 55 minutes
  • Fact text check: 5 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, match pairs and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Name the main topic of an informational text read aloud and retell key details.
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in an informational text.
  • Use text features (title, pictures, labels and captions) to find information.
  • Tell how two things described in a text are alike and different.

Lessons

  1. What is it mostly about? 4 steps2 practiceabout 14 min
  2. Ask and answer 5 steps2 practiceabout 14 min
  3. Titles, labels and captions 4 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  4. Alike and different 4 steps2 practiceabout 14 min
  5. Fact text check 5 questions at the end

Keep exploring

Games to practice with

  • Memory LanternsFlip glowing lanterns to find pairs that belong together.
  • Sound GardenListen closely and grow the garden: find the word that starts, rhymes or claps just right.
  • Word WorkshopBuild the word for each picture, one sound at a time.

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