Fiction or Nonfiction
This type of text is made up and includes characters, settings, and events from the author's imagination.
What is fiction?
This is a fraction where the numerator is larger than the denominator.
What is an improper fraction?
This is the most important point the author wants you to understand in a paragraph or passage.
What is main Idea?
This is the rate for one unit of something.
What is unit rate?
This text structure tells what happened and why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
What is the value of the 6 in the number 46,219?
What is 6,000?
This type of text gives real facts and information about the world around us.
What us nonfiction
This is a number made up of a whole number and a fraction.
What is a mixed number?
This part of a paragraph often tells you the main idea directly.
What is the topic sentence?
If 5 notebooks cost $10, what is the unit rate per notebook?
What is $2 per notebook?
This text structure explains how two or more things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
In the number 7.452, what place is the 5 in?
What is the hundredths place?
You’re reading a book with a table of contents, headings, photographs, and a glossary. What kind of text is it?
What is nonfiction?
Change this improper fraction to a mixed number: 9/4
What is 2 and 1/4?
You read a paragraph about all the ways dogs help people, like guiding the blind and sniffing out danger. What’s the main idea?
What is “Dogs help people in many ways”?
You run 12 miles in 3 hours. What is your unit rate in miles per hour?
What is 4 miles per hour?
a common text organization pattern, details the characteristics and features of a topic, often using vivid language and sensory details to create a mental picture for the reader
What is description?
Which number is greater?
0.473 or 0.44
what is 0.473 > 0.44
A story about a talking dog who becomes a detective is an example of this.
What is fiction?
Write this mixed number as an improper fraction: 3 and 2/5
What is 17/5?
The reason why they write a particular piece.
What is the Author's Purpose
A grocery store sells 4 pounds of apples for $6. What is the unit rate in dollars per pound?
What is $1.50 per pound?
You read an article that lists steps to planting a garden. What text structure is being used?
What is sequence (or chronological order)?
How does the value of the 3 in 3,582 compare to the value of the 3 in 38,000?
What is the 3 in 38,000 is ten times greater?
This kind of nonfiction tells a true story using characters, settings, and dialogue, but all events are real.
What is narrative nonfiction?
Lena baked 11/3 of a pie. Write this amount as a mixed number and explain what it means.
What is 3 and 2/3? It means she baked 3 whole pies and two-thirds of another pie.
If the main idea is "Recycling helps protect the environment," give two supporting details that could be in the passage.
What are “It reduces the amount of trash in landfills” and “It saves natural resources like trees and water”?
A car travels 180 miles on 6 gallons of gas. What is the unit rate in miles per gallon, and what does it mean?
What is 30 miles per gallon? It means the car goes 30 miles for every 1 gallon of gas.
You read a passage that describes a big problem in a city and then explains different ways to fix it. What is the text structure?
What is problem and solution?
Put these numbers in order from greatest to least.
0.742, 0.042, 0.427, 0.42, 0.703
0.742, 0.703, 0.427, 0.42, 0.042