Literacy
A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The meaning of the Latin root port, found in words like transport and portable?
What is to carry.
4,000 + 300 + 60 + 2 written as a standard 4-digit number.
What is 4,362?
This is the study of the earth, its features, and the people who live on it.
What is geography?
Using your five senses to gather information about the world around you.
What is an observation?
A word that shows action (e.g., jump, run, think).
What is a verb?
The meaning of the Latin root aud, found in audio and audience?
What is to hear or listen.
A baker puts 36 cookies equally into 4 boxes. How many cookies are in each box?
What is 9 cookies?
Someone who buys and uses goods and services is called this.
What is a consumer?
When light bounces off a shiny surface like a mirror.
What is reflection?
You have been playing outside in the cold all day, so your fingers are numb. Based on context, what does numb mean?
What is unable to feel anything?
The meaning of the Latin root struct, found in words like construct and destroy?
What is to build or make.
The fraction 5/10 written as a decimal.
What is 0.5?
This famous document was adopted on July 4, 1776, declaring the 13 colonies free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Sound travels in these.
What are sound waves?
The text structure used when an author explains how two things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
The meaning of the Latin root scrib or script, found in words like scribble and description?
What is to write?
The name of a quadrilateral that has exactly one pair of parallel lines.
What is a trapezoid?
This country is directly south of the United States.
What is Mexico?
This is the process where wind or water moves broken-down rock and soil to a new location.
What is erosion?
Which word in this sentence is a preposition? The dog slept under the bed.
What is "under"?
The meaning of the Latin root spect, found in words like spectator and inspector?
What is to see or look at.
The cafeteria had 251 apples. For lunch they handed out 47 to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes 6 apples, how many pies could they make?
What is 34 pies? (Note: 251 - 47 = 204. 204 รท 6 = 34)
These are the names of the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
Dolphins use these high-pitched sounds, along with clicks, to talk to each other and identify themselves.
What are whistles?