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Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 3, Understand, recount, and analyze literary texts using details from words and illustrations.

Ask and Answer About a Story

Ask and answer who/what/where/when/why/how questions using explicit details from literary text.

How the lesson starts: Ask and Answer About a Story

1. Meet Detective Dot

   Meet Detective Dot. She is a ladybug with a big magnifying glass. Dot loves questions. Who? What? Where? Every answer hides in the story. Let's help Dot find them!

2. Question words

   Each question word hunts for one kind of clue. Who wants a person or animal. What wants a thing. Where wants a place. When wants a time.

3. Dot finds the answer

   Listen. Ravi and his goat, Pickles, went to the park on Sunday. Ravi packed three apples in a red basket. Where did Ravi go? Where wants a place. The park! The answer is right there.