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100

What is a triangle with 3 equal sides?

What is an equilateral triangle?

100

The place I yearn to go to the most is Hawaii.

be afraid, beg, visit, want

What is "want"?

100

Words that are used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true

What is figurative language?

100

Patra sold her bear collection online for $59. She also sold a purse for $13. Patra used all of the money to buy 3 student tickets to the water park. How much does each ticket cost?

What is $24?

100

Simplify this expression: [(38X 8) divided by 4] - 26

What is 50?

100

Read the entire passage.


What should I do before trying to answer any questions?


200

A text that gives information about a person's life, is written by another person, and gives facts from history.

What is a biography?

200

3- 1.268

What is 1.732?

200

Mr. Brown bought 2 and two-third pounds of bananas and 3.5 pounds of peaches at the grocery store. How many more pounds of peaches than bananas did Mr. Brown purchase?

What is five-sixths of a pound?

200

The reason an author writes (to perform, tell, or persuade)

What is author's purpose?

200

The narrator is a character in the story (list clue words)

What is first person narration (written using 'I, we, me, us')?

200

Circle, underline, or highlight.


What do I do with important information in the passage or the question?


300

A square, rectangle and rhombus can all be this shape

What is a parallelogram?

300

There is no way I am swimming in that murky water!

beautiful, clean, shallow, cloudy

What is "cloudy"?

300

Kent buys a bag that contains 6 small boxes of raisins. Each box contains six-sevenths ounce of raisins. How many ounces of raisins does Kent buy?

What is 5 and one-seventh ounces?

300

Taco Grande is open 24 hours a day. They sell 240 tacos every day. How many tacos would they sell in 36 hours?

What is 360 tacos?

300

2 + 7 X 5 + 4

What is 41?

300

Erase any stray marks and make sure I bubble in every question.


What should I do before turning in my answer document?


400

What is a story that is not true, but includes some historical events that are true?

What is historical fiction?

400

You have 64.20 pounds of candy. You want to share the candy with 12 of your friends. How much candy will each person get?

What is 5.35 pounds?

400

Sara's mom has one-half of a pot of chili left over after dinner. She wants to divide it into 3 equal servings. How much chili will be in each serving?

What is one-sixth of the pot?

400

Aaliyah will go on a 3 week vacation with her grandparents. She will take $275 of her money. Her grandparents will give her another $250. Aaliyah will spend all of the money and she will spend the same amount each day. How much money will she spend each day of vacation?

What is $25?

400

The narrator is outside of the story (please list clue words)

The narrator is outside of the story (he, she, him, them, they, Bob, Sue, etc.)

400

Reading: Go back into the passage, find the information, and write it next to the question.


Math: Find the information needed to solve the question and write down my equation.


What is "prove my answer/show my work"?


500

A trapezoid is or is NOT a parallelogram because

It does not have 2 sets of parallel lines, it only has 1 set of parallel lines

500

You have 6 pencils and your friend gives you 7 more pencils. Each pencils weighs 7.8 ounces. How many ounces of pencils do you have total?

What is 101.4 ounces?

500

She cried for days after she lost her favorite animal.

What is hyperbole?

500

Each 5th grader at BTE built a toothpick bridge for an engineering contest. All together, they used 7,392 toothpicks. If each 5th grader used 88 toothpicks, how many 5th graders attended BTE?

What is 84 toothpicks?

500

(3.8 - 0.7) X 3

What is 9.3?

500

Look it up in the dictionary.


What should I do (on the reading STAAR) when I don't know a word in the passage or in the question?

600

All the ways you can classify a triangle that has two sides that measure 45°  each.

What is an isosceles right angle?

600

Jessica was very vindictive and wanted to get back at her sister for the mean hoax she played on her.

wanting revenge, quiet, untruthful, cruel

What is "wanting revenge"?

600

The sparkling water was lightning bugs dancing in the moonlight.

What is an example of metaphor?

600

A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader

What is theme?

600

Briefly restating what happened in a story or in a paragraph by giving the main points and most important details

 Whar is summarizing?

600

Any time a math question asks to measure, convert one measurement to another, find length, width, height, or perimeter, area, or volume.

When should I use my reference materials for Math?