Vocabulary
A threatened species whose numbers are decreasing rapidly, the mountain zebra is classified as endangered.
The phrase from the sentence that is a synonym which helps the reader know the meaning of the word endangered is.
What is threatened species?
The order of adjectival words in a sentence. Choose the best.
1. This artist created small square green paintings.
2. This artist created green square small paintings.
3. This artist created square small green paintings.
What is number 1?
This artist created small square green paintings.
They were nicknamed “Penny Universities” because, for just one penny, people could get a cup of coffee and spend hours talking about the latest ideas in science, literature, and the arts.
The central idea of this excerpt is universities once cost only a penny or people enjoyed the feeling of learning at a low cost.
How people enjoyed the feeling of learning at a low cost?
Blue is considered a cool color in contrast to orange’s warmth. A soothing color, it reminds people of water and brings a sense of peace.
The connotation, or feeling, of the word cool affect this passage by emphasizes the color as stylish and trendy or creates a sense of being relaxed and calm.
What it means creates a sense of being relaxed and calm?
Choose the word that introduces a dependent clause.
San Fransico is one place where you will find Chinese hot pot dishes.
What is the word where?
The key detail that supports the central idea that coffee’s popularity has lasted such a long time because it brings people together and gives them energy.
1.Originally, coffee beans grew on bushes.
2.Coffee became the drink of choice in America.
3. People worldwide have been drinking coffee for centuries.
How coffee became the drink of choice in America and how people worldwide have been drinking coffee for centuries?
While the study of color psychology is mostly conjecture and not something proven by science, marketing researchers generally say using the color orange works because people often associate good times and good feelings with this color.
To conjecture means to guess or question.
What it means to guess?
Choose which setting you would use informal words.
Asking a librarian to help you with a book.
Presenting a report in your class.
Sharing great news with your family.
What it means to share great news with your family?
Each page required a different hand-carved block. Because the wood blocks weren’t very durable, they often split after being used only a few times. As a result, printing was time-consuming and expensive.
The signal words for cause and effect are.
What is because and as a result?
Yellow dandelions, usually called “weeds” by gardeners, are edible and packed full of nutrients. In fact, these powerhouse plants provide more calcium than milk and more iron than spinach.
The main idea that nutrients help to develop in the passage is some plants are easier to care for than others or many wild plants have great health benefits.
What is many wild plants have great health benefits?
Determine the words that will replace the words that are in italics in the sentence.
are hiking
were hiking
was hiking
Yesterday, we will be hiking to the top of a mountain.
What is the words "were hiking?"
To solve the issue, Gutenberg created movable type. The process involved carving the mirror image of letter into a metal block. The letters were set into a tray that held the type in place, covered in ink, and pressed onto paper. Printers could rearrange the metal letters into new words and pages of text to print more pages.
The text structure in the paragraph helps you understand the ideas that Chronological order helps readers understand how printing presses advanced over time, compare and contrast helps readers understand the similarities and differences between the wood and metal letter blocks, or problem and solution helps readers understand how Gutenberg addressed the fact that printing with wood blocks was slow and expensive.
What is problem and solution?
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
The phrase “lamp of experience represents which style of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
Our teacher explained to us that plants are autotrophs.
The prefix auto- means "self," and the root troph means "food." What is the meaning of autotroph as it is used in the sentence?
1. something that eats food
2. something that makes food for others
3. something that becomes foods
4. something that makes its own food
What is number 4?
Something that makes its own food
Another wonder, the volcano Paricutin, erupted out of a cornfield in Mexico in 1943. Paricutin is special because it is the first volcano that people were able to observe from its birth to its death. Over the eight years it was active, lava flowed from the volcano over an area of nearly 10 square miles. The volcano inspired scientists to study it, and a Hollywood movie company gave it a starring role in its film.
The central idea of the passage is the volcano Paricutin was active for eight years, the volcano Paricutin is one of a kind, or lava from the volcano Paricutin flowed over nearly 10 square miles.
What is the volcano Paricutin is one of a kind?