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Grade 1 · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 14

Reading Smart

Predict, connect, and use text features.

What your child practises

Practises thinking before and while reading: using what you already know, predicting what happens next, making connections to your own life, using headings and pictures, telling kinds of texts apart and learning topic words.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: NWT English Language Arts (2011), Comprehension · background knowledge, choosing texts, text forms and features, predictions, connections and topic words

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

    Which kind of text tells true facts about animals?

    • a made-up joke
    • a fairy tale
    • a nonfiction book

  2. Question 2

    Which is a story from long ago told out loud?

    • a menu
    • a phone bill
    • oral storytelling

  3. Question 3

    The word “seed” is a topic word. Which subject is it from?

    • swimming
    • plants
    • music

  4. Question 4

    Look at the cover. What might the book be about?

    • You must not guess
    • It is a secret
    • You can make a prediction

  5. Question 5

    A chart in a book shows…

    • a made-up story
    • information in a list or grid
    • only colours

  6. Question 6

    Who might know a lot about a topic you are learning?

    • nobody
    • a stranger on the street
    • an Elder or an expert

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