PSSA Prep Practice Jeopardy

3rd Grade Math

100

This number is 20 more than 328.

What is 348?

200

The larger fraction between 1/4 and 1/2...

What is 1/2?

300

This time is 15 minutes past 2:30pm.

What is 2:45pm?

400

This shape has 5 sides.

What is a pentagon?

500

You must add all of the a shapes sides in order to find this.

What is the perimeter?

3rd Grade ELA

100

List the 3 purposes that an author would write a story for? (hint: to... , to... , to...

What is persuade, inform, entertain

200

This is name of the person telling the story.

What is the narrator?

300

This is where a story takes place.

What is the setting?

400

This is what a passage is mostly about.

What is the main idea?

500

This word is the words that describe a picture in a text.

Caption

PSSA Vocabulary

100

This is when the word is the opposite of another.

What is an antonym?

200

This is when the same sound repeats itself at the beginning of a word.

What is an alliteration?

300

This is a word that makes a sound.

What is an onomatopoeia?

400

This is when a text (usually a poem) says the same word or phrase over and over.

What is repetition?

500

This compares two things WITHOUT using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

Suffix/Prefix

100

This means comes before (prefix)

What is pre-?

200

This means full of (suffix)

What is -ful?

300

This means to do again (prefix)

What is re-?

400

This means not (prefix)

What is un-, im- or non-

500

This means having none (suffix)

What is -less?

3rd Grade Grammar

100

This part of speech is a person, place, thing.

What is a noun?

200

This part of speech is an action.

What is a verb?

300

This part of speech describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

400

This is what the sentence is about.

What is the subject?

500

This is around the words when someone is saying them out loud.

What are quotation marks?