Reading
This is the term for what a passage is mostly about, often found in the first or last sentence.
What is the main idea?
This is the term for a word that describes a noun, giving details like color, size, or shape.
What is an adjective?
This is the term for a shape with four equal sides and four right angles.
What is a square?
This is the name of the 19th-century movement that encouraged Americans to settle land west of the Mississippi River.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term describes the layer of gases surrounding the Earth, which protects living organisms from the sun's harmful radiation.
What is the atmosphere?
This term describes the reason behind a character’s actions or decisions in a story.
What is motivation?
This type of sentence asks a question and usually ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
This term describes the number on the top of a fraction that shows how many parts are being considered.
What is the numerator?
This President is known for the Louisiana Purchase, which greatly expanded the United States territory.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the state of matter where molecules are closely packed together and vibrate but do not move freely.
What is a solid?
This is the underlying message or lesson that an author wants to convey through a story.
What is the theme?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or to form contractions.
What is an apostrophe?
In a number, this term refers to the value of a digit based on its position, like ones, tens, or hundreds.
What is place value?
This Native American tribe was forcibly relocated along the Trail of Tears to what is now Oklahoma.
What is the Cherokee Tribe?
This term refers to a community of living organisms interacting with their non-living environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This skill involves making a logical guess based on text evidence and prior knowledge.
What is making an inference?
This type of writing tells a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, often including characters and a plot.
What is narrative writing?
This is the result when you multiply two numbers together.
What is the product?
This conflict, fought from 1861 to 1865, was primarily over issues of slavery and states' rights.
What is the American Civil War?
This term describes the path that a planet or other celestial body takes as it moves around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
These are hints found in a sentence or paragraph that help determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
This verb tense is used to describe actions that are happening right now.
What is the present tense?
This term refers to a type of graph that uses bars to show comparisons between categories.
What is a bar graph?
This is the term for the process of moving people from rural areas to cities and the growth of urban areas in the 20th and 21st centuries.
What is urbanization?
This term refers to the large, round object that orbits a planet and is responsible for creating tides on Earth.
What is the Moon?