3rd Grade ELA
Nonfiction text _____ are visual aids for nonfiction texts.
a) ideas
b) features
c) books
What is b) features?
There are ____ inches in 4 feet.
What is 48 inches?
The ______ of Independence was signed and the Revolutionary War started. (The word means the announcement of a formal written signed statement.)
What is Declaration?
_______ is the moving of soil, sand, or rocks on the Earth’s surface from one place to another. (It could be from blowing or flowing.)
What is Erosion?
Plymouth's school mascot is a ________.`
What is a panther?
Nonfiction text _______ are ways to organize the content of the text.
a) books
b) literature
c) structures
What is c) structures?
There are ____ inches in 2 yards.
What is 72 inches?
_______ _________ was the Revolutionary War General that became our first president.
Who is George Washington?
______ are a great way to slow down or stop erosion. Their roots help hold the soil in place.
What are plants or trees?
The school colors for Plymouth High School are _____ and _____.
What are black and orange?
The conventions of non-fiction texts include: Table of Contents, Glossary, page numbers, and one of the following ______.
What is title, photographs/pictures, diagrams, labels, or index? (or acceptable answer)
119 + ____ = 137
What is 18?
The ______ ___ ______ is date that we celebrate for the American colonies independence from British rule. (Think boom-booms.)
What is 4th of July?
It took ______ years for the Grand Canyon to be carved by moving water. (In this long time, the water carved a canyon 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and an average depth of about one mile--with the greatest depth at about 5,400 feet.)
a) thousands
b) millions
c) hundreds
What is millions of years?
Plymouth is the _______ Capitol of the world.
What is cheese?
Give one of the two remaining text structures out of five common non-fiction text structures: 1. description 2. cause and effect 3. _______ and ________ 4._______ and ________ or 5. ____________
What is compare and contrast, problem and solution, or sequence?
There are ____ yards in 108 inches.
What is 3 yards?
The United States Capitol is in ___________ _._.
What is Washington D.C.?
Erosion is usually caused by _____ or _____.
What is wind or water?
Plymouth's population is about _______ people.
a) about 20,000 people
b) about 9,000 people
c) about 4,000 people
What is about 9,000 people?
A description text structure shows ______.
a) mental images of the details of an event, person, place, or object.
b) a set of facts
c) chronological order.
What is mental images of the details of an event, person, place, or object?
____ is half of 114.
What is 57?
______ ______ made a famous ride on horseback in the Revolutionary War. (The legend is that he rode through town yelling, "The British are coming!")
Who is Paul Revere?
The shape of land on Earth is constantly changing. We may not notice it because it usually happens very, very ______.
What is slowly?
The name of the giant cow next to Antoinette's is named ________. (There is a big clue in the statement.)
What is Antoinette. (The restaurant was named after the cow.)