Math
What is the first step in the Problem Solving Process?
Understand the Problem.
What does a topic sentence of a paragraph tell?
What the paragraph is going to be about.
What is the main idea?
The big idea or what a reading is mostly about.
What is a prefix? Give an example.
A word part at the beginning of a word. Can change the meaning of a word. For example: ex-, mis-
What level of government is responsible for all of Canada?
Federal Government
Reread the question and underline big ideas.
What are the 3 parts of a paragraph?
1.Topic Sentence
2. Supporting details
3. Closing/Concluding Sentence
What are supporting details?
Sentences, details or ideas that are about and support the main idea.
What is a root word?
A base word that helps with meaning of words.
What level of government is responsible for the provinces/territories?
Provincial/Territorial
What are strategies/operations?
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
The first sentence that grabs the reader's attention.
What does it mean to retell?
Tell all the details that you read about, including the beginning, middle and end.
What is a suffix? Give an example.
Word part at the end of a word. For example, -ed.
What level of government is responsible for a city or town?
Municipal
Describe the mental math strategy 'compensation'.
Add or subtract one (or more) to make a 'friendly number' and then add or subtract it at the end.
What is revising?
When you add details, move, change or remove details from your writing. When you read your writing out loud and check if it makes sense.
What does it mean to relate?
Make connections to what you read to yourself, other books you've read or the world around you.
Use the word light to help you fill in the missing word and spell it correctly.
There was a flash of ________ followed by loud thunder.
lightning
Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?
Justin Trudeau
Describe the mental math strategy of decomposition.
To take a number apart based on each place value and then add or subtract each place value.
What is editing?
When you correct writing conventions such as: spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar.
What does it mean to reflect?
Share your thoughts about the reading and ideas in the book.
'Act' means to do, work or move. Add the prefix in- and the suffix -ive to the root word 'act'.
What word do you get and what is the new meaning?
inactive means not to do, work or move
True or False? The provincial and federal governments share responsibility of health services and immigration.
True.