Expectations
What is the first thing you should do when you come in the class in the morning?
What is a binder and folder that you take out and put your back pack in the bin.
Izzy and Nana are trying to make.
What are tortillas?
Paragraph
What is a series of sentences that focus on a single topic or idea, organized into a distinct unit of writing?
8 X 10 =
What is 80?
Trees cannot tell _____ but can certainly tell _____.
What is cannot tell jokes but can tell stories?
criteria
What is a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.
If Mrs. Van Horn is talking, what are you expected to be doing?
What is listening?
Why does Nana say you should not buy tortillas from the store?
What is, "They taste like rubber."
Conclusion Sentences
The last sentence in a paragraph that reminds the reader of the topic.
4 X 100?
What is 400?
The name of a Los Angeles Palm tree who is the exception to the name rule?
Who is Karma
Phenomena
What is an observable fact or event usually something unusual.
How do we go down the steps to get to lunch and what do we do when we get to the bottom?
What is slow and carefully and stop at the bottom in a line until everyone is down?
Where Izzy goes when her Mom goes to South America to study?
Where is New Mexico, to spend the summer with Nana.
Details
What are sentences with more information, examples or explanations to add to the supporting ideas?
7 X 1,000 =
7,000
Bongo prefers to be referred to as this rather than a crow.
What is a Corvid?
Innovation
What is a new method, idea or process?
Mrs. Van Horn does NOT expect _______ but does expect ________.
What is she does not expect perfection but 100% effort?
The three ingredients Nana uses to make tortillas?
What are flour, lard, and hot water?
Supporting Ideas
What are sentences with facts, reasons, or details that support the topic of the paragraph?
The number that is in the 10,000 space in 178,453?
What is 7?
In a story a conclusion reached on the basis of prior knowledge or evidence. The process of inferring something.
What is inference?
Impact
To have a strong effect on something.
The expectations during a fire alarm.
What is walk in a straight line without talking?
Nana's hands feel like?
What is smooth pieces of glass?
Topic Sentence
What is a sentence used to introduce the reader to the topic of a paragraph?
The number in the 100,000 space in 4,285,692
What is 2?
The name of the Posum that played dead for Samar and Stephen?
What is Flashlight?
Descriptive Investigation
What is a set of procedures scientists follow to answer a question and make a claim?