This asking and answering questions unit on Google Slides includes digital mini-lessons and activities that teach students how to read and write questions and answers about key details in a text. Text topics include literature and informational. Conventions for writing questions and answers are also covered.

This resource was created for distance learning and interactive lessons on Google Slides for use in Google Classroom, but can be easily downloaded from your Google Drive as a PowerPoint file.

NOTE - This unit is a discounted bundle including the following products:

→ Ask and Answer Mini-Lessons

→ Ask and Answer Student Activities

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This unit can be purchased and used by itself, or it can be purchased as part of my Digital Reading Curriculum Bundle, which covers all of the Kindergarten Common Core Standards for Reading.

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What's Included?

This unit includes:

→ A Lesson Guide

→ Eight (8) Digital & Interactive Mini-Lessons
→ 22 Digital & Printable Worksheets / Digital Literacy Centers

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Activities

✍ Match the Question (3 pages): Students will read simple questions and match the answer. Visual aids are included!

✍ Ask a Question (2 pages): Graphic organizer with question prompts for students to write questions about any text they read.

✍ Read It, Write It: Questions (3 pages): Writing practice. Includes tracing for printable version, or text entry boxes for digital use.

✍ Questions Before Reading (2 pages): Practice answering questions before reading by using the title and cover as support for answers.

✍ BDA Graphic Organizer (1 page): Graphic organizer to record questions before, during, and after reading any book.

✍ Match the Answer (3 pages): Students will read simple answers and match the question. Visual aids are included!

✍ Read It, Write It: Answers (3 pages): Writing practice. Includes tracing for printable version, or text entry boxes for digital use.

✍ Kindergarten Reading Passages (5 pages): Students can practice asking and answering questions about key details in texts with and without support. Texts feature CVC words, Fry's first hundred sight words, and repetition to aid decoding.

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Digital Lessons

This unit includes the following interactive lessons on Google Slides:

1. Ask and Answer Questions About Books: Understand why asking and answering questions about books is important.
2. What Are Questions?: Explain that a question is an asking sentence.
3. How Do I Ask Questions: Use question words, such as who, what, where, when, why, and how.
4. Writing Questions: Write questions with an uppercase letter at the beginning and a question mark at the end.
5. Questions About Books: Ask questions before, during, and after reading.
6. What Are Answers?: Explain that an answer is the information the question asked for.
7. Writing Answers: Write answers with an uppercase letter at the beginning and a period at the end.
8. Answers About Books: Answer questions about books.

Mini-Lessons are for supplemental use during instruction.

NOTE: You can add elements to the existing slides (voice-over, text boxes, videos, etc.), but please do NOT add slides to or delete slides from the lesson deck. Doing so will "break" the interactive components.

• If you do ever accidentally "break" or lose the lesson or activities decks, you can click the link in the PDF to download new copies to your Google Drive - no worries! :)

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Teacher Tips

Your download will include a PDF with links to the Google Slides. When prompted, click "Make a Copy" to save to your Google Drive.

When creating an assignment, first make a copy of the presentation. Then, remove any slides you do NOT want assigned.

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Common Core Standards

RL.K.1

RI.K.1