Writing
The title of an explanation text
What is a how or why question?
The most important idea in a text. What the writer wants you to know.
What is the main idea?
A $10.00 note, a 50 cent coin and a 20 cent coin
What is $10.70 made with the smallest amount of coins and notes?
This is the measurement used to describe the power in a battery.
What is voltage?
A singular subject takes a singular verb, and a plural subject takes a plural verb
What is subject-verb agreement?
The main idea written in every paragraph
What is the topic sentence?
This is the first step in looking for the main idea
What is the title?
This is the amount of change given to Tobey when he purchases a pair of shoes for $20.00 and a shirt for $10.20 and pays with a $50 note
What is $19.80?
This is an element or something that can be changed.
What is a variable?
What is Nuclei?
Part of a sentence that adds extra information.
What is an appositive?
This is when the main idea isn't obvious
What is an implied main idea?
This is the amount of change given to Anthony when he purchases a book for $15.50, a pencil for $2.20 and a bike for $62.95 and pays with a $100 note
What is $19.35?
This is something that changes the flow of an electrical circuit
What is a switch?
The nouns simplest form
What is a singular noun?
What is an explanation text? That is a fantastic question! An explanation text tells your audience how something works or why something happens. Explanation texts give detail and logically describe the stages in a process, such as the water cycle, or how a steam engine works. Other examples could be how a law is made, or why we blink when we sneeze.
What is an explanation about an explanation text?
This is the main idea in this paragraph: Electric circuits are paths for transmitting electric current, or moving electricity. Such circuits allow electricity to be used to provide power to lights, appliances, and many other devices. Scientists have studied electricity for hundreds of years. But it was not until the early 1800's that they learned how to create a continuous flow of electricity and then to channel that electricity through the use of a circuit.
What is Electric circuits are paths for transmitting electric current, or moving electricity?
This is the least amount of notes and coins used to make $73.60.
What is a $50 note, a $20 note, a $2 coin, a $1 coin, a 50 cent coin and a 10 cent coin?
This is the amount of flowing electric charge in one second.
What is current?
The act of speaking ones thoughts aloud, especially by a character in a play.
What is a soliloquy?
This is something that is key to writing detailed explanation piece
What is subject specific vocabulary?
This is the main idea of this paragraph: Inside a battery there are two pieces of metal in a liquid or a paste. The metal parts are called electrodes. The liquid or paste, called an electrolyte, is a mix of chemicals. Each electrode has a point, called a terminal, that sticks out of the battery.
This is the cost of a book that is $25.00 + 10% GST
What is $27.50?
This is something which helps electrons to flow in a continuous uniform direction through wires.
What is an electrical circuit?
The name of the 1759 French finance minister, and was also used as an insult in France.
What is the etymology of silhouette?