CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1d
The Standard
Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
What This Standard Means
Students need to understand that question words ask for different kinds of answers. Who asks about a person. What asks about a thing or action. Where asks about a place. When asks about time. Why asks for a reason. How asks the way something happens.
Mastery looks like a child choosing the right question word, answering questions correctly, and making simple oral questions. Students often mix up why and how, or answer where with a person. Picture support and repeated oral practice help a lot.
Ways to Teach It
- Hands-on: Put picture cards in a bag, pull one, and have students ask a who, what, or where question about it.
- Prompt: Show a playground picture and ask students to write or say one who, what, where, when, why, and how question.
- Quick assessment: Say six questions aloud and have students hold up the matching question-word card for each one.
- Real-world connection: During lunch count, ask students, “Who brought lunch?” “What is for snack?” and “Where do we eat?”
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.3
Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.4
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.