Vocabulary
A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb and often ends in "-ly".
What is an adverb?
What is the main idea of an informational text?
What is what the text is mostly about?
What is plot?
What is the sequence of events in a story?
If there are 8 apples and 4 oranges, what is the ratio of oranges to apples?
4:8 or 1:2
What does PEMDAS stand for?
Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
What is a variable?
A letter that stands for a number.
What is a simile? Provide an example.
What is a comparison using "like" or "as"; Example: "Her smile was as bright as the sun."
Name two text features that help readers understand informational text.
What are headings, subheadings, captions, bold words, diagrams, charts?
The point of view when the narrator knows everything about all characters.
What is third-person omniscient.
A recipe uses 2 cups of sugar for every 5 cups of flour. What is the ratio of sugar to total cups used?
2:7
Solve: 5 + (3 × 4)
17
Solve for x: 7x = 42
x = 6
Define figurative language and give one example.
Words or phrases that have a meaning different from the literal meaning; Example: "The classroom was a zoo" (metaphor).
How does an author support their ideas in an informational article?
What is by using evidence like facts, examples, statistics, and expert opinions?
Clues that hint at what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
In a class, the ratio of boys to girls is 5:6. If there are 30 girls, how many boys are there?
25 boys
Solve: 6 + 12 ÷ 3 × 2
14
If x/8 = 7, what is the value of x?
x = 56
What type of figurative language is this? Provide the definition.
"The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification? Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is author's purpose? Provide the options.
What is why the author wrote the text? What are to persuade, inform, or entertain?
What are character traits?
What are qualities that describe what a character is like, shown through actions, thoughts, and words?
A bag has red and blue marbles in a ratio of 2:3. If there are 10 red marbles, how many blue marbles are there?
15 blue marbles
Solve: 20 – (6 + 2) × 2
4
Joe has x dollars. After spending $15, he has $25 left. Write and solve the equation.
x – 15 = 25; x = 40
What are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, interjections, conjunctions, and prepositions?
What is a fact vs. an opinion?
What is a fact can be proven true and an opinion is what someone believes or thinks.
What is the difference between internal and external conflict? Provide examples of both.
What are struggles within a character (internal) and struggles between outside forces (external)? Exmaples will vary.
The ratio of girls to boys at a summer camp is 7:5. If there are 84 girls, how many total campers are there?
144 campers (84 girls + 60 boys)
Maya has 3 groups of 4 candies. She gives away 5 candies. How many does she have left? (Use an expression to solve.)
(3 × 4) – 5 = 7 candies left
The area of a rectangle is 48 meters2. If the width is 4 meters, what is the length?
12 meters