January Vocab
Which word means "to go upward"?
Ascend
Which word means "to keep out or force back"?
repel
The girl is going to the park, she is excited to swing.
A. fragment
B. Comma splice
C. Correct
B
Main idea is...
what the text is mostly about
What is my favorite color?
What is a synonym for the ADJECTIVE form of "husky"?
big, strong
What does it mean to have a copious amount of something?
You have a lot of it
A fragment is...
an incomplete sentence
When I want to find the main idea of a passage, where can I look to give me hints?
Title, illustrations or pictures, first sentence, last sentence
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Would an old woman be someone who is your peer?
no
True or False: "To skew something means to make it accurate."
false
What are the two things you need in a sentence to make it "complete"?
a subject and a predicate
There are 8 planets in the solar system, and each one is very different. Some planets are very large like Jupiter and Saturn. Others, like Mercury and Mars, are smaller. Jupiter has moons that are larger than Mercury. The planets also have different atmospheres. Jupiter and Saturn have atmospheres of hydrogen and helium. The atmosphere of Earth has a nitrogen and oxygen atmosphere. The planets also have different temperatures. Uranus is the coldest and Venus is the hottest.
What is the main idea of this passage?
The planets in the solar system are all different.
What is my favorite soda?
cherry coke
Define "muffle".
To make something quieter by covering.
What does it mean to quibble with someone?
to have an unimportant disagreement with them
A subject is...
A predicate is...
who or what the sentence is about
what the person or thing is doing
There are many things you can do to take care of your glasses. Make sure your glasses fit well. The earpieces should be at eye level. Don’t try to adjust the earpieces yourself. Take your glasses for adjustments to the place you bought them. Keep your glasses in a case when you’re not wearing them. This will prevent scratches. Keep the lenses clean. A soft cloth is best for cleaning.
What is the main idea of this paragraph? What is one detail to support it?
main idea: there are many things you can do to take care of your glasses.
detail: use a soft cloth to clean, don't adjust earpieces yourself
Where do I live?
Ephrata
Give a synonym AND antonym for the word "disperse".
synonym- scatter, spread, sprinkle
antonym- gather, collect
True or false: if something is rotund, it is very thin.
Find the four errors in the sentence and correct them:
we went to the farm, it was A lot of fun
We went to the farm. It was a lot of fun.
Before clocks were made, people kept track of time by other means. In ancient Egypt, people used a water clock. Water dripped slowly from one clay pot into another. People measured time according to how long it took one pot to empty and the other one to fill. Candle clocks were common during the Middle Ages. As such, when a candle burned, marks on its side showed how much time had passed. A final ancient way to measure time was the sundial, which used the movement of the sun across the sky. The shadows moving across the face of the sundial showed the current time.
What is the main idea?
B
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