ELA Funny
Which word best completes the sentence?
Marvin thought the quiz was hard, but he found the end of semester exam to be much ______________.
A. more harder B. more hard C. harder D. harding
harder
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What do plants need to make their own food?
Water, sunlight, air, nutrients
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
What is 6 × 7?
42
Which adverb best completes the sentence? Alaska has __________________ cold weather.
A. almost B. urgently C. never D. extremely
D. extremely
What do we call the main idea of a story?
The central message or what the story is mostly about.
What force keeps you from floating into space while eating cereal?
Gravity!
What is the main language spoken in Mexico?
Spanish
What is the value of the 3 in the number 3,582?
3,000
What’s wrong with this sentence? “I eated a whole pizza by myself.”
“Eated” isn’t a word! It should be “ate.”
What is a synonym for the word “happy”?
Glad, joyful, cheerful, or excited
What state of matter is slime?
A solid and a liquid (it’s a non-Newtonian fluid — but we just say it's gooey).
What is the fastest land animal in the world?
Cheetah
What are parallel lines?
Parallel lines are lines that go in the same direction, side by side.
Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?
A) Banana
B) Crash
C) Grandma
B) Crash – it sounds like the noise it makes!
What word is a verb in the following sentence?
Tony slithered quietly down the hallway.
slithered
Three types of matter?
Solid, Liquid, Gas
What are my two out of 3 children's names?
Milton, Johnathan, Penelope
What is one-half written as a decimal?
0.5
What is the theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
The theme is honesty
What is the difference between first-person and third-person point of view?
First-person uses "I" or "we" and tells the story from the narrator’s view; third-person uses "he," "she," or "they" and tells the story about others.
Name the process that pulls up liquids into the air.
Evaporation
What do you call a baby kangaroo?
Joey
What is the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 5 cm and a width of 3 cm?
16 cm
What is the figurative meaning of “He has ants in his pants”?
He can’t sit still (but he should definitely check his pants).
What does it mean when an author uses figurative language like “The clouds were cotton candy”?
It’s a simile or metaphor used to make writing more interesting by comparing things.
What is a food chain?
It shows how energy moves from one living thing to another (but sadly, pizza is not in it).
How many continents are there?
7
A recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar. If you want to make half the recipe, how much sugar do you need?
3/8 cup
What is ironic about this sentence: “I absolutely love doing homework all weekend!”
It’s sarcasm — the opposite of what the speaker really means (unless they’re a robot).
What is the theme of a story, and how do you figure it out?
The theme is the lesson or message the author wants to share. You figure it out by thinking about what the characters learn or what the story teaches.
What causes day and night on Earth?
The Earth spinning (and nope, not someone flipping a big light switch).
Which ocean is the largest?
Pacific Ocean
A student read 45 pages each day for 6 days. Then they read 30 pages on the 7th day. How many pages did they read in total?
300 pages