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What is the setting?

The location and time of a story

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What symbol do you use at the end of a sentence when you are exclaiming something?

Exlamation point / !

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"He was as quiet as a mouse" is an example of a ___.

A simile

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What place value is the 9 in: 9,560,560

millions

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What type of author's purpose is it when an author tries to get you to believe the same way they do about a topic?

To entertain

To persuade

To explain

To inform

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What is a character in a story/novel?

The person or animal in a story.  Usually the conflict surrounds them in the story.   

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What is the first-person point of view?

When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"

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What does it mean to compare and contrast? 

To describe how things are alike and how they are different

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What is the difference between 5,650 and 5,649?

1


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Mr. Nevatt went to the market and purchased 82 donuts for the class. Mr. Nevatt ate 1/2 of the donuts before the class received any. How many donuts were left?

There were 41 donuts left.

3000

What figurative language is this below?

Lucy Lu loves lasagna and linguini. 

Alliteration

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A picture with labels is called a _____.

A picture with labels is called a diagram.

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Which figurative language is the following sentence?

"She is a tornado when she gets angry!"

Metaphor

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What is 56.567 divided by 100?

What is .56567

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What is a prefix?

Part of a word added to the beginning of a root word that changes the meaning of the root word.

4000

What is the main idea?

What the text is mostly about. 

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Why do we use quotation marks "   " around words that we use when we are citing evidence directly from a text?

To show that these are not your words but words the author of the text wrote.

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"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language? 

Personification

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What is the product of 560 X 10

What is 5,600

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The _________________ is the layers of air that surround Earth's surface


What is the atmosphere

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The vocabulary words listed in the back of the book is called?

Glossary

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What text structure would I use when teaching someone how to bake a cake?

Cause/Effect

Chronological/Sequential

Problem/Solution

Compare/Contrast

Sequence/Chronological

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What is the ending of a story called? Where the problem is solved?

resolution

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What is 17.56 X 1000

What is 17,560

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The ___________________ is the movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to Earth's surface as precipitation.

What is the water cycle