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100

We are studying this in Science.

What are birds?

100

We are studying this in Socials.

What are horses? or "How Horses Came to North America."

100

We have this many voices when we read.

What are three voices?

100

It's not called highlighting... it's called...

What is WHYlighting?

100

a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly.

What is a bird?

200

This little bird says "Chickadee-dee-dee" for what purpose?

To alert against intruders and to describe the size of the predator nearby.

200

The name of the first horse, who lived 55 million years ago.

What is Eohippus?

200

This is the name of the green voice.

What is the READING voice?

200

When you take notes on a piece of paper.

What is note-taking?

200

To illuminate.

What is light?

300

The spruce hen is also nicknamed this because it has almost "no fear" of humans. (It relies on its camouflage instead of flying away).

What is a fool hen?

300

Where Eohippus went when they left North America (about 2-3 million years ago).

What is Asia?

300

This is the name of the yellow voice.

What is the THINKING voice?

300

When you take notes in the margins of text.

What is annotating?

300

a qualified practitioner of medicine; a physician.

What is a doctor?

400

Arrange these owl species in order of size (from smallest to largest):

Saw-Whet, Great Horned owl, Snowy owl, Great Gray owl.

Saw-Whet, Great Horned owl, Snowy owl, Great Gray owl.

400

This guy brought horses back to North America about 500 years ago.

Who is Christopher Columbus

or

Who are the Spaniards?

400

This is the name of the red voice.

What is the DISTRACTED voice?

400

In a T chart, we write what the text says on the green side. What goes on the yellow side?

What the text means.

400

Any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates.

What is a bone?

500

The magpie's tail looks black until the sun hits it. Then it looks blue-green. This phenomenon is called...

Iridescence. It is caused when the microscopic feather structures act as a prism, splitting the light into its component colours (diffraction). Hummingbirds and magpies have irredescent feathers.

500

This group of people (who lived in North America before Columbus "discovered" it) tamed and used wild horses long before Colonial settlers arrived inland.

Who are the Indigenous People?

or 

Who are Natives?

500

This is what I do when my thinking voice gets distracted.

STOP!

Go BACK to the last thing you remember.

REREAD!

500

To figure out what text means, first I whylight important words. Then I do this to figure out what the text means.

1. I reread the whylighting.

2. I think about what the thinking voice is whispering.

3. I write what I THINK the text means.

500

The region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth.

What is the sky?