5th Grade
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What is a synonym for fast?
Quick, speedy, etc.
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What are these: " "
Quotation marks
Mrs. Crow teachs math at my school.
Teaches.
How many days are in a week?
7
Spell the word that completes this sentence: It's almost time for summer _________
vacation
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What is an antonym for cold?
Hot, warm, etc.
Fact or opinion: "I think green beans taste like boogers."
Opinion
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Similes compare using "like" or "as"
In what year was the Boston Tea Party?
1773
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Spell the word: a mountain with hot lava inside
volcano
What two words make the contraction "hasn't"?
Has + not
What is an example of a verb?
run, skip, walk, jump, etc
Simile or metaphor?
I am as hungry as a horse.
Simile
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How long is a decade?
10 years
Jack found putting the dishes away every night to be a tedious job. He was getting so bored of it.
What does the word "tedious" mean?
Boring, uninteresting, unexciting.
Which verb tense is correct?
There ______ 16 cows in the barn.
(Is / Are)
Are
What word is a verb in the following sentence?
Tony slithered quietly down the hallway.
slithered
Simile or metaphor?
The sky is an ocean.
Metaphor
Who was the first president of the United States of America?
George Washington
Spell the word: What has the dates, months, and days of the week on it?
Calendar
What is the theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she would be punished.
The theme is honesty
Emily assumed her mom washed her shirt because it was missing.
What does the word assumed mean?
suspected or guessed
Simile or metaphor?
When I heard about the party being cancelled, I felt as deflated as an old balloon.
Simile
What does the prefix "centi" mean?
one hundred
100
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Spell the last month of the year.
December
After which ward did Britain started to tax the colonists?
French-Indian War
What is it called when we put together what we already know about something with the details from what we read? Triple points
An inference
My mom's spaghetti is very filling. The school's spaghetti leaves me with an empty feeling.
The underlined words in the sentence above are examples of which of the following? (Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms)
Antonyms
In what year did the American Revolution begin?
1775
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Spell the word for people living in colonies
colonist
Words or phrases that help make connections between phrases, sentences, or paragraphs
(example: First, Next, Then, Last)
Transition words
My new pants were on (sale/sail) at the store.
My soccer team (beet/beat) our rivals.
Sale / beat
Name any three of the five best known founders of the United States.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton.
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During the American Revolution, which group of people was against American Independence?
Loyalists
Spell the word for a lesson, message or moral of a text
theme
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