ELA comprehension
Developing a Nation, p. 4: The first automobiles in the 1890's were called this.
What are horseless carriages?
This sentence is missing something:
Who were these amazing workers
What is a question mark?
There is a word in this sentence that has a prefix that means to do something again.
Many Dust Bowl Refugees had no choice but to flee the storms in the Great Plains and relocate.
What is relocate?
Solve 26 x 17.
What is 442?
Patrick picks 18 apples from each of 24 trees. Calculate the total number of apples picked.
What is 432?
Developing a Nation, p. 5: In 1916 Congress passed a law that started the building of roads and interstate highways.
What is the Federal-Aid Road Act?
This sentence is missing something:
The river bank over there has a flat spot for our tents, said Sacajawea. We also can do some fishing.
What are quotation marks?
Sunlight, four-legged, and post office.
These are all examples a type of word.
What are compound words?
Solve 145 x 89 using area model.
What is 12,905?
Students who run the school store bought 1,440 pencils. They put them into packages of 6 pencils. Calculate the number of packages they can make.
What is 240 packages?
Developing a Nation, p. 7: Think of the text structure of this excerpt: "Finally, when the blizzard stopped, more than 400,000 people had lost their homes and farms. These 'dust bowl refugees' - many from the hard-hit state of Oklahoma - had no choice but to flee the Great Plains and relocate."
What is cause and effect?
Correct this sentence:
To who did you give the turkey sandwich?
What is 'whom'?
These two words have the same Greek/Latin root word.
pedestrian pedal
The pedestrian did not use the crosswalk.
I crashed on my bike because the pedal broke.
What is ped or pede?
5,678 divided by 4.
What is 1,419 2/4?
A ticket to a movie theater for a student is $7. The cost for an adult is $2 more than for a student. Calculate the cost for 13 adults and 11 students.
What is $194?
Developing a Nation, p. 9: Songwriter Woody Guthrie used this figure of speech to express his experience as a refugee in the lyrics of this song:
"Yes, we wander and we work
In your crops and in your fruit,
Like the wirlwinds on the desert.
That's the dust bowl refugees.
What is a simile?
A narrative story has a beginning, middle and end. As a writer, think of where you would have your character start making attempts to solve the problem in the story.
What is the middle?
Use context clues to find the meaning of the word 'tranquility'.
Developing a Nation, p. 10
"On the south there was blue sky, golden sunlight and tranquility; on the north, there was a menacing curtain of boiling black dust."
What is calm or peaceful?
Solve 23 5/6 times 5.
What is 119 1/6?
Jonah wants to make 5 capes for a play. He will use 2/3 yard of fabric for each cape he makes. Calculate the amount of fabric he needs to buy from the store.
What is 3 1/3 yards?
Developing a Nation, p. 17: In the 1870's, Native Americans of the Great Plains started to attack settlers traveling west and workers. Their main source of food, the buffalo, was dying and they felt they need to defend their way of life and their lands. They particularly hated an invention that was being built across the plains.
What is the railroad?
You want to have another recess at school. Two recesses are not enough. This type of writing would convince your principal to schedule another recess in the school day.
What is a persuasive or opinion essay?
Developing a Nation, p. 10.
The author of this passage uses a figure of speech to give the reader a sense of what it was like to live through a dust storm.
"...there was a menacing curtain of boiling black dust. It had the appearance of a mammoth waterfall in reverse..."
What is metaphor?
Solve 45 1/6 minus 23 4/6.
What is 21 3/6?
Regina bought a skateboard for $137.74, but she only had seven 20 dollar bills. Calculate the change she received.
What is $2.26?