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What is a triangle with 3 equal sides?
What is an equilateral triangle?
The place I yearn to go to the most is Hawaii.
be afraid, beg, visit, want
What is "want"?
Words that are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
What is figurative language?
Patra sold her bear collection online for $59. She also sold a purse for $13. Patra used all of the money to buy 3 student tickets to the water park. How much does each ticket cost?
What is $24?
Simplify this expression: [(38X 8) divided by 4] - 26
What is 50?
Read the entire passage.
What should I do before trying to answer any questions?
A text that gives information about a person's life, is written by another person, and gives facts from history.
What is a biography?
3- 1.268
What is 1.732?
Mr. Brown bought 2 and two-third pounds of bananas and 3.5 pounds of peaches at the grocery store. How many more pounds of peaches than bananas did Mr. Brown purchase?
What is five-sixths of a pound?
The reason an author writes (to perform, tell, or persuade)
What is author's purpose?
The narrator is a character in the story (list clue words)
What is first person narration (written using 'I, we, me, us')?
Circle, underline, or highlight.
What do I do with important information in the passage or the question?
A square, rectangle and rhombus can all be this shape
What is a parallelogram?
There is no way I am swimming in that murky water!
beautiful, clean, shallow, cloudy
What is "cloudy"?
Kent buys a bag that contains 6 small boxes of raisins. Each box contains six-sevenths ounce of raisins. How many ounces of raisins does Kent buy?
What is 5 and one-seventh ounces?
Taco Grande is open 24 hours a day. They sell 240 tacos every day. How many tacos would they sell in 36 hours?
What is 360 tacos?
2 + 7 X 5 + 4
What is 41?
Erase any stray marks and make sure I bubble in every question.
What should I do before turning in my answer document?
What is a story that is not true, but includes some historical events that are true?
What is historical fiction?
You have 64.20 pounds of candy. You want to share the candy with 12 of your friends. How much candy will each person get?
What is 5.35 pounds?
Sara's mom has one-half of a pot of chili left over after dinner. She wants to divide it into 3 equal servings. How much chili will be in each serving?
What is one-sixth of the pot?
Aaliyah will go on a 3 week vacation with her grandparents. She will take $275 of her money. Her grandparents will give her another $250. Aaliyah will spend all of the money and she will spend the same amount each day. How much money will she spend each day of vacation?
What is $25?
The narrator is outside of the story (please list clue words)
The narrator is outside of the story (he, she, him, them, they, Bob, Sue, etc.)
Reading: Go back into the passage, find the information, and write it next to the question.
Math: Find the information needed to solve the question and write down my equation.
What is "prove my answer/show my work"?
A trapezoid is or is NOT a parallelogram because
It does not have 2 sets of parallel lines, it only has 1 set of parallel lines
You have 6 pencils and your friend gives you 7 more pencils. Each pencils weighs 7.8 ounces. How many ounces of pencils do you have total?
What is 101.4 ounces?
She cried for days after she lost her favorite animal.
What is hyperbole?
Each 5th grader at BTE built a toothpick bridge for an engineering contest. All together, they used 7,392 toothpicks. If each 5th grader used 88 toothpicks, how many 5th graders attended BTE?
What is 84 toothpicks?
(3.8 - 0.7) X 3
What is 9.3?
Look it up in the dictionary.
What should I do (on the reading STAAR) when I don't know a word in the passage or in the question?
All the ways you can classify a triangle that has two sides that measure 45° each.
What is an isosceles right angle?
Jessica was very vindictive and wanted to get back at her sister for the mean hoax she played on her.
wanting revenge, quiet, untruthful, cruel
What is "wanting revenge"?
The sparkling water was lightning bugs dancing in the moonlight.
What is an example of metaphor?
A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader
What is theme?
Briefly restating what happened in a story or in a paragraph by giving the main points and most important details
Whar is summarizing?
Any time a math question asks to measure, convert one measurement to another, find length, width, height, or perimeter, area, or volume.
When should I use my reference materials for Math?