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English · Pre-K

Learn from Informational Pictures

Children discover fact books: books that tell true information about real things. They compare a fact book with a make-believe story, learn how a tadpole becomes a frog from an informational read-aloud and its pictures, and practise asking and answering questions that a fact book can answer.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 40 minutes
  • Fact book check: 4 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, match pairs and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Tell an information (fact) book about real things apart from a make-believe story.
  • Learn facts from an informational read-aloud and its pictures, such as the order of a life cycle and what body parts do.
  • Ask and answer questions about an informational text, and tell which questions a fact book can answer.

Lessons

  1. Fact book or story? 4 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  2. From tadpole to frog 4 steps2 practiceabout 14 min
  3. Ask and answer 5 steps2 practiceabout 13 min
  4. Fact book check 4 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.
  • Story SequencerShuffle, sort and retell: put the picture cards in story order.

More pre-K reading

Guides for grown-ups