Reading
Before you read a text, you can ask yourself: is this story fiction or nonfiction? What will happen with the characters in the end?
That strategy is called making a...
PREDICTION
They are used to separate three or more items within a series or list.
COMMAS
Jake and his family went on a 10-day vacations. He read pages of a book each day. How many pages did he read in total?
120 pages
Places close to this are warmer than the places near the Poles
THE EQUATOR
It is made up by two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxigen
WATER
Words and sentences around a word that gives clue to its meaning.
CONTEXT
In the following sentence:
"When it started to rain, we went inside."
Which is the independent clause?
WE WENT INSIDE
The total cost to stay one night at Sleepy Head Motel is $199 without breakfast and $142 with breakfast. What is the difference in the cost?
$23
He was the ancestor of the Israelites. According to the Bible, he lived in a city called Ur.
ABRAHAM
This state has indefinite shape, and indefinite volume
GAS/ GASEOUS
The sentence that clearly states the author’s opinion.
TOPIC SENTENCE
In the sentence:
"He chopped enough wood for a week."
Which is the direct object?
WOOD
A professional baseball team won 84 games in a season. The team won 14 more games than it lost. There were no ties. How many games did the team play?
154 games
It is the carrying away of land by forces of nature
EROSION
They feed in the remains of other animals, leaving less for the decomposers to break down.
SCAVENGERS
What kind of texts seek, or try, to convince people to think or to act in a certain way?
PERSUASIVE TEXTS
In the following sentence:
"She made the dog a special dinner."
Which is the INDIRECT object?
THE DOG
How much is 62 x 22?
1,364
The great wealth of this empire came from gold and salt mines
THE MALI EMPIRE
Organism that is nonnative to an environment that disrupts the stable web of life
INVASIVE SPECIES
What kind of texts always include factual information?
NON-FICTION / INFORMATIVE TEXTS
This verb tense shows an action that began in the past and is still happening.
PRESENT PERFECT
Richard has 6 times as many marbles as Pam. Pam has 34 marbles. Louis has 202 marbles. Who has more marbles?
RICHARD (204)
The first king of this empire was Dinga Cisse
GHANA EMPIRE
They shows the transfer of energy and matter from one organism to another.
FOOD CHAIN