What Is It Mostly About? is a free printable Kindergarten English worksheet on naming the main topic of an information text, aligned to Common Core standard RI.K.2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 20 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
20 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
What Is It Mostly About?
RI.K.2
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
Ants
Ants are insects. An ant has six legs. Ants live together in a nest. Some ants dig tunnels. Some ants carry food. An ant can lift something much bigger than itself. Ants work as a team.
1. What is this text mostly about?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
From Egg to Frog
A frog starts as an egg in the water. The egg hatches into a tadpole. A tadpole has a tail and no legs. The tadpole grows back legs. Then it grows front legs. Its tail gets shorter. At last it is a frog.
1. What is this text mostly about?
LessonPrint · RI.K.2 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Is It Mostly About?
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Ants, and how they live and work together.
2.1. How a frog grows from an egg.
Questions about What Is It Mostly About?
What does the What Is It Mostly About? worksheet cover?
It practises naming the main topic of an information text — 2 questions for Kindergarten, all on Common Core RI.K.2: Say what the book was mostly about, and give some facts from it. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does What Is It Mostly About? practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.2 — RI.K.2, in the Reading: Informational Text domain for Kindergarten. The published standard reads: “With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
What Is It Mostly About? is written for Kindergarten, typically ages 5-6. It is one of the sheets on RI.K.2, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does What Is It Mostly About? come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of What Is It Mostly About? can I print?
25 versions, of which 20 ask genuinely different questions — this skill does not have 25 distinct questions to give, so the rest reorder them and no two pupils still share a paper. Set 1 downloads all 25 as one PDF.
Is What Is It Mostly About? free to print and photocopy?
Yes. What Is It Mostly About?, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
Is there a lesson plan to teach RI.K.2?
Yes — “What the Book Is Mostly About” is a 30-minute Kindergarten plan for RI.K.2, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. What Is It Mostly About? is the practice that follows it.
More practice for RI.K.2
Say what the book was mostly about, and give some facts from it.