Kindergarten · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 11
Book Detectives
Letters, words and books
What your child practises
How print works: telling letters, numbers, words and sentences apart, reading left to right and top to bottom, counting words, and what authors and illustrators do.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Share understandings of ideas and information about people, places, or things that are real or imaginary. · how books and print work, and sharing what we understand
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
What do we call the person who writes the words?
- 🎨The illustrator
- ✍️The author
- 👀The reader
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✍️ The author
Hint: The author is the person who writes the words in a book.
Question 2
In English, which way do we read?
- ➡️Left to right
- ⬅️Right to left
- ⬆️Bottom to top
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➡️ Left to right
Hint: In English, we start on the left and move our finger to the right.
Question 3
Which word comes first?
The sun is hot.
- The
- hot
- is
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The
Hint: Start on the left. The first word begins with a capital letter.
Question 4
Which one is a word?
- mom
- D
- 7
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mom
Hint: A word is a group of letters that means something, like dog.
Question 5
How many words are in this sentence?
Look at the moon.
- 3
- 4
- 5
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4
Hint: Point to each word as you read. The spaces show where one word ends.
Question 6
Where does an English book start?
- 🎯In the middle
- 📕At the front
- 🔚At the back
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📕 At the front
Hint: We open a book at the front cover, then turn the pages.