Reading
What is the place where a story happens called?
Setting
Every sentence must start with this.
What is the sum of 1 +2 +3 + 4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +10?
55
How many syllables are in the word "paragraph"?
3
Where would you find these animals... a pig, a sheep, a chow, and a chicken?
On a farm
All stories have what 3 parts?
Beginning, middle, and end
Where do the quotation marks go in this sentence.
Today is the best day ever exclaimed my friend.
"Today is the best day ever" exclaimed my friend.
What is the sum of two quarters, a dime, three nickels and a penny?
64 cents
Come up with 10 words that rhyme with bake.
cake, fake, flake, lake, make, rake, shake, take, wake, quake
What are the three body parts of an insect?
What is the category of books called that are real and true?
Non-Fiction
What is the name of each paragraph in a five paragraph essay?
introduction, body, body, body, conclusion
What are the order of operations?
PEMDAS: parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction
What is a digraph? Give 5 examples.
a combination of two letters representing one sound.
Ex: ch, sh, th, wh, ph
What does the word country of origin mean when talking about family culture and history?
Where a person's ancestors were born
What is the cause, if the effect was Jack tiptoed upstairs, in the following paragraph?
Jack was alone in the house. He heard a strange sound upstairs. He tiptoed up the stairs and peeked into his bedroom. A big moth was fluttering against the window.
a) Jack was alone in the house.
b) A big moth was fluttering against his window.
c) He heard a strange sound upstairs.
He heard a strange sound upstairs.
Name five different kinds of punctuation.
period, question mark, exclamation mark, comma, colon, semi-colon, parentheses, quotation marks, ellipses, slash, hyphen
There were 27 birds flying in the sky. 18 of them landed on a tree. 17 more birds showed up in the sky.
How many birds were in the sky all together?
27 - 18 = 9
9 + 17 = 26
26 birds were in the sky together.
What do all words have to have? And what are they?
Hint: There are five of them!
Vowels: a, e, i, o, u
Which specific Native American community does Los Encinos share this land with?
The Tatavium people
Name four different kinds of text features.
What are the three main kinds of writing.
narrative, informational, argumentative/persuasive
There are about 795 houses in this region. The average family size is 6 people. There are about __________ people living in the region.
a. 4,800 b. 5,000 c. 5,500
a. 4,800
What are these sounds called? -ar, -er, -ir, -or, -ur?
R-Controlled sounds
What are the names of the two rivers that sustained ancient Mesopotamia?
Euphrates and the Tigris