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These are real questions pulled straight from the app, not marketing examples. Pick a grade. Every grade has its own questions written for it, so a fifth grader and a sixth grader never see the same set.
A sitting is four questions in grades 1-2, five in grades 3-5, and six in grades 6-8, sized so a child that age can finish it. From there it adapts: get a couple right and it steps up, struggle and it eases off, and anything missed comes back a few days later rather than being quietly dropped.
Six real questions from Grade 1 — drawn from 1,206 written for this grade alone.
A glossary in the back of a book tells you what hard words mean.
✓ True
A glossary is a little word list that explains tricky words from the book.
💡 A glossary is like having a dictionary built right into your book!
RI.1.5You push two same-size squares together, side by side. What new shape do they make?
- a triangle
- ✓ a rectangle
- a circle
Two squares side by side make a rectangle with 4 sides.
💡 Big shapes are made of little shapes — that is how pattern blocks work!
1.G.A.2Which word DESCRIBES the dog? 'The fluffy dog ran.'
- ✓ fluffy
- dog
- ran
Fluffy tells us more about the dog, so it is a describing word.
💡 Describing words paint a picture — 'fluffy dog' helps you SEE it in your mind!
L.1.1.FAn owl sleeps during the day and hunts at night. Animals that are awake at night are called…
- Frozen
- ✓ Nocturnal
- Tiny
Nocturnal animals are active at night and rest in the daytime.
💡 An owl's huge eyes soak up tiny bits of light so it can see in the dark!
1-LS1-1What is one job you could do to keep your room tidy?
- Make my bed
- Put clothes in the basket
- Line up my shoes
A tidy room is easier to play in and find things in!
💡 Doing one small tidy job each day keeps a big mess from ever piling up!
Let's try balancing! Which one do you want to try?
- Stand on one foot
- Walk on my tiptoes
- Stand still like a flamingo
Balancing helps your body learn to stay steady.
💡 Flamingos can stand on one leg for hours — even while they sleep!
A note on how these are written
Academic questions are tagged to Common Core and NGSS standards, and every answer is fact-checked before it ships. Where a question is about feelings or values, it has no right answer on purpose: a child should not be graded on whether they picked the well-behaved option.
And some of the best activities are not questions at all. They send your child away from the screen: to move for five minutes, do a chore nobody assigned them, or ask you about your day.
My daughter was behind for her grade and now she feels all caught up with her reading and math.
BrightStep is a ten-minute daily check-in for children in grades 1-8, used by families anywhere in the US. It adjusts to each child and ends when the work is done.
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