3rd Grade
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
what does the word rewrite mean?
to write again
What does the beginning of every sentence need to start with?
A capital letter
What is our school mascot?
Falcon
What are the 5 senses?
Taste, touch, sight, smell, hearing
What is RAP?
Restate, Answer, Provide Evidence to support your answer from the text
Describe how to compare and contrast
Find the similarities and differences between two topics
What is a proper noun? (provide examples)
The name of someone, a place, or animal. (ex. Walmart, Ella, Kentucky)
what is a noun (4)?
A person, place, thing or idea
What Holiday is this Sunday
Easter
Name the seasons?
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
What is time management?
Making sure you do not waste time during an assignment or test.
True or False: All poems have to rhyme
False- some poems do but not Free Verse
What is melancholy?
Melancholy is the feeling of a deep sadness or sorrow
What is an adjective?
A word that describes something
What is the name of our Assistant Principal
Mrs. Ward
What does the Earth rotate around?
the Sun
What does K/W stand for?
What you know and what you wonder
Explain Main Idea and Key Details
Main idea is what the story is mostly about and the key details provide examples of the main idea.
what does the word nonfiction mean?
A genre of writing that is "not fake" real informational text
What should always go at the end of a sentence?
Punctuation. (.!?)
Name a person you can talk to if you are in trouble
Teachers, parent, ....Any trusted adult!
What are the main things you must have in order to grow a plant? Name at least 4
Water, sunlight, proper environment, air, soil, proper nutrients
What is the process of elimination?
When you mark out options that you know are not correct to narrow down the choices.
What are character traits?
How a character thinks, feels, or behaves through actions in the story.
What is a suffix?
a letter, or group of letters, that is added to the end of a. root (base) word
- ed
- s
What is a verb?
An action word
What is the principal's full name? (first and last)
Virenda Cunnigham Lester
What is a habitat?
What are text features and how do they help me during the state test?
Text Features are added to the text to help the reader learn more information.
Bold print, side bar, pictures, captions and diagrams.
What is Author's Point of View?
The author's thoughts and feelings on a topic are explained in the passage
What is the difference between a CAUSE and an EFFECT ?
The cause is why it happened, and the effect is what happened.
It's raining outside, so I used my umbrella.
What is Narrative Writing?
writing used to tell an experience or story
Who are the 3rd grade teachers this year? (all 3 of them)
Carter, Chumbler, Wortman
What is it called when decayed organic material is used as a plant fertilizer.
COMPOST
What does it mean to annotate?
What is the purpose of Opinion Writing?
Opinion writing expresses the writer's ideas and tries to convince the reader to agree with an opinion.