Reading Comprehension
This is the central idea of a text.
What is what the text is mostly about?
Words that have the same meaning.
What are synonyms?
What is 347 rounded to the nearest hundred?
What is 300?
Words like careless or hopeful that are formed by adding parts to the beginning or end of a base word.
What are prefixes and suffixes?
A teacher places 6 pencils in each box. She fills 7 boxes.
How many pencils are there in all?
42 pencils
Clues in the text that help you understand something not directly stated.
What is making an inference?
Words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
A class collected 385 cans for a food drive.
Another class collected 214 cans.
The school donated 500 cans to a shelter.
How many cans are left?
Step 1: 385 + 214 = 599
Step 2: 599 − 500 = 99 cans
The puppy was exhausted after running around the park all afternoon."
what is The meaning of the word exhausted in this sentence.
What is very tired?
A bakery made 45 cupcakes. They put 5 cupcakes in each box.
How many boxes can they fill?
What is 9 boxes.
The people, animals, or creatures in a story.
What are characters?
When a word has more than one meaning depending on the sentence.
What are multiple-meaning words?
A playground has a fence that goes around a rectangular field.
The field is 8 meters long and 3 meters wide.
What is the perimeter?
8 + 8 + 3 + 3 = 22 meters
An antonym for exhausted.
What is energetic or rested?
There are 4 tables in the classroom. Each table has 6 chairs.
Then the teacher brings in 3 more chairs.
How many chairs are in the room now?
4 × 6 = 24
24 + 3 = 27 chairs
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Clues in a sentence that help you figure out the meaning of a word.
What are context clues?
A flat shape with straight sides that is completely closed.
What is a polygon
The prefix in the word rewrite.
What is re-
Tom ate 2/6 of a cake and Maya ate 1/6 of the cake.
Who ate more cake?
Tom
This tells what happens first, next, and last in a story.
What is sequence?
A phrase that means something different from the exact words.
Example: “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
What is an idiom?
A farmer packed 6 boxes with 8 oranges in each box.
Then he picked 15 more oranges.
How many oranges does he have in all?
Step 1: 6 × 8 = 48
Step 2: 48 + 15 = 63 oranges
"The puppy was exhausted after running around the park all afternoon."
The clue in the sentence that helps show the meaning of exhausted.
What is “running around the park all afternoon”?
A school buys 7 packs of markers.
Each pack has 8 markers.
Students use 15 markers for a project.
How many markers are left?
7 × 8 = 56
56 − 15 = 41 markers left