Vocabulary
True or False
Text Features
Grammar
Examples
100

An animal that has a backbone.

What is a vertebrate? 

100

Fish have backbones.

What is true?

100

These text features are on page 5 in your reader.

What is a picture and caption?

100
A person, place or thing is called a _______. 

What is a noun?

100

List 2 characteristics of mammals.

vertebrate, live babies, drink milk from mom, have hair/fur.
200

An animal that does not have a backbone.

What is an invertebrate?

200

Fish are amphibians.

What is false?

200

This text feature is shown on page 32 in your reader.

What is a bolded print?
200

True or false: There are two proper nouns in the sentence below: 

Fyle Elementary School is located in Rochester, NY.

What is true?

Fyle Elementary School is located in Rochester, NY.

200

These are the two types of frogs we compared and contrasted.

What is a tree frog and a poison dart frog?

300

Something that makes a person, thing, or group different (or unique). 

What is a characteristic?

300

An animal whose body temperature is constant with its environment is cold-blooded. 

What is false?

300

This text feature is shown at the top of page 42 in your reader.

What is the heading?

300

Identify the subject, predicate, and conjunction word in the following sentence: 

Squirrels and dogs are furry animals.

Squirrels, dogs (subjects)

are furry animals (predicate) 

and (conjunction word)

300

List 2 characteristics of fish

gills, fins, scales, etc.

400

To put things into groups. 

What is classified?

400

The five groups of vertebrates are: 

Mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, and amphibians.

What is true?

400

This text feature is found in the back of the book and organized in alphabetical order.

What is the glossary?

400

Add the suffix -ing to the word catch


Catching

400

List 2 characteristics of amphibians.

live in both land and water, gills when young and lungs when older, 

500

This person is an expert in classifying animals based on their characteristics.

What is a taxonomist?

500

Cold-blooded is described as having a body temperature that changes with the environment's temperature.

What is true?

500

This text feature is on page 49 in your reader.

What is a diagram?

500

Add the suffix -ed to the word grab

grabbed

500

List 3 sequence words used in writing.

What is first, next, then, second, last, finally?