Main Idea
There are many different kinds of bears in the world. Black bears live in North America. Grizzly bears also live in North America. They are very dangerous. The white Polar bear lives in the Arctic. The biggest bear is the Kodiak bear that is found in Alaska. What is the main idea of this text passage?
A. Bears live in North America.
B. Bears are dangerous.
C. There are many kinds of bears.
What is "There are many kinds of bears."
When a writer writes about another person's life.
What is biography?
Two words that have similar definitions.
What is a synonym
A word with the opposite meaning of another word
What is antonym?
The remains of organisms that have been preserved for a long time.
What is Fossil
Bats are fascinating animals. They are not birds, they are flying mammals. Some bats eat fruit, others eat insects. Bats are experts at flying. They use a system called echolocation to fly quickly in the dark. Which is the main idea of this text passage?
A. Bats are flying mammals. B. Bats are fascinating animals. C. Some bats eat fruit.
What is "Bats are fascinating animals."
When the story is made up but could happen in real life.
The ending of the story, the last plot element
What is the conclusion OR the resolution?
a specific feature that helps identify something - physical or behavior
what is characteristics?
Materials from the Earth that can be replaced.
What is renewable resources?
Many types of bacteria are helpful. For example, some are able to take nitrogen from the air. They then put it into the soil. This makes the soil better for growing plants. Some bacteria are helpful in making cheese. Other bacteria are helpful in making vinegar.
What is the main idea of this text passage?
A. Bacteria puts nitrogen from the air into the soil. B. Bacteria helps make food. C. Some types of bacteria helps humans.
What is "Some types of bacteria helps humans."
The story is made up, it is not real.
What is fiction?
Changes made to the content of a piece of writing.
What is revision?
the overall emotion created by a work of literature
What is mood?
An educated guess.
What is hypothesis?
Our solar system is very large. It includes the eight planets that turn around the sun. These planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There are also hundreds of thousands of smaller planets in this system. They are called asteroids. Each asteroid is much smaller than any of the eight large planets.
What is the main idea of this text passage?
A. Our solar system is made up of the Sun, the nine large planets and many asteroids. B. Pluto used to be a planet but now is a dwarf planet. C. There are eight large planets in our solar system.
What is "Our solar system is made up of the Sun, the nine large planets and many asteroids."
Harry Potter books are examples of this type of genre.
What is fantasy?
The point of view used when a text that is written using pronouns such as: "he, she, his, her"
What is third person point of view?
the sequence of events in a story
what is the plot?
Reclassified as a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
Honeybees form large hives. There are thousands of bees in a hive. One bee is the queen. She lays the eggs. Some bees gather nectar and pollen from flowers to make honey. Other bees protect the hive. Some bees keep the hive clean. Still other bees help the queen. Each bee has a special job to do in the bee hive. What is the main idea of this text passage? A. Bees work together to make honey. B. Each bee has a job to do in a beehive. C. The queen is the most important bee.
What is "Each bee has a job to do in a beehive."
Little House on the Prairie books are an example of this genre.
What is Historical Fiction?
The message an author is telling with the story or a passage
What is Theme?
using 'like' or 'as' to compare
what is simile?
The variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment
what is the independent variable