Reading
These are hints in a text that help readers understand unfamiliar words.
What are context clues?
This is a sentence that clearly states the main idea of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
A strategy used to estimate answers by changing numbers to friendlier numbers.
What is rounding?
This transformation flips a shape over a line like a mirror image.
What is a reflection?
This strategy means carefully reading the question more than once before answering.
What is re-reading the question?
This text feature helps readers locate information quickly in nonfiction texts.
What is a heading?
These words and phrases connect ideas in writing.
What are transition words?
The average of a set of numbers.
What is the mean?
This transformation slides a shape without turning or flipping it.
What is a translation?
This strategy helps you remove wrong answers in multiple-choice questions.
What is process of elimination?
This is a brief explanation of the most important ideas from a text.
What is a summary?
This is the process of checking your work for spelling, punctuation, grammar, and clarity.
What is editing?
The actual number in the pattern sequence.
What is the term value?
The position of a term in a pattern sequence.
This strategy means looking for important words like “explain,” “compare,” or “justify.”
What is identifying keywords?
This reading skill uses clues from the text and your thinking to figure something out that is not directly stated.
What is inferencing?
This means adding details to help the reader picture your ideas clearly.
What is descriptive writing?
A shape that can be folded into matching halves.
What is symmetry?
Shapes that have the same size and shape are called this.
What are congruent shapes/figures?
This strategy means showing all of your thinking in math questions.
What is explaining your reasoning?
These are details and examples from the text that support your thinking.
What is text evidence or citing?
This is the final sentence or paragraph that wraps up a piece of writing.
What is a conclusion sentence?
Data that can only take certain values, such as the number of students in a class.
What is discrete data?
The probability found by using math and reasoning before an experiment happens.
What is theoretical probability?
This strategy means checking your work before submitting the test.
What is reviewing your work?