I am a type of fiction text that has scenes, a list of characters at the beginning, acts, and stage directions telling the audience what to do. My author's purpose is to entertain although the text may persuade the audience to think differently about a particular subject.
What is a play or drama?
100
I am the amount of millimeters in 1 centimeter.
What is 10 millimeters?
100
I am a change that occurs over time and helps animals succeed and survive in their environments. I begin with the letter "A". Examples of this are a badger's sharp claws designed for rooting and digging through the ground.
What is an adaptation?
100
I am the operation you use when you are trying to find the total amount of two different numbers.
What is addition?
100
I can use these to help me answer the questions on the Reading STAAR test without having to read the passage.
What are graphic features like pictures, captions, and graphs?
200
I am a word that begins with a "c" and describes the problem the characters in a fiction story must fix or resolve. This problem means the story will probably be entertaining, exciting, and interesting to the audience.
What is the conflict?
200
I am the amount of fluid ounces in 2 cups.
What is 16 fluid ounces?
200
I am the home that animals use for food, shelter, sleeping, and protection. Cows use pastures, wolves use dens, bears use caves, but all of these animal homes are called this.
What are habitats?
200
I am the operation you use to check your answers when you complete a division problem. I am also used to calculate the total of large groups of numbers that would be difficult to add.
What is multiplication?
200
These words help describe how a story, an article, a play, or a poem are divided. There are four of them.
What are section, selection, stanza, and scenes?
300
I am the best way to choose the correct summary from a group of summaries on a reading question. Reasonable responses will be accepted.
What is choosing the summary that contains the most important ideas and events from the story?
300
I am the number of ounces in two tons.
What is 640,000 ounces?
300
I am the force and I am the form of energy that come together to help move water in the bathtub, shower, or over a dam.
What is gravity and mechanical energy?
300
This mnemonic device helps me remember the steps in a division problem. Tell me what the letters in the mnemonic device and words mean.
What is DMSBR (Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down, Remainder)?
300
This term describes what a paragraph is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
400
These two strategies allow me to infer (make an educated guess or inference about) the meaning of a word that I don't understand in a reading passage.
What are using background knowledge and context clues to make inferences?
400
I am the number of seconds in 3 days.
What is 259,200?
400
I am the object that causes high and low tides on Earth and has waxing, waning, new, and gibbous phases.
What is the Moon?
400
This operation allows me to figure out the difference or how many objects are left over in a word problem.
What is subtraction?
400
This word describes the order of events in a fiction or non-fiction text.
What is sequence?
500
I am the time, place, and mood of the story.
What is the setting?
500
I am the perimeter and area of a rectangle with two eight foot sides and two two foot sides.
What is perimeter=20 feet and area=16 feet?
500
I am the three main processes of the water cycle.
What is condensation, evaporation, and precipitation?
500
I am the top part of the fraction that describes the part of the group or set we are looking at. I am the bottom part of the fraction that describes the entire group or set. Name both of us.
What is the numerator (top part) and the denominator (bottom part)?
500
This type of graphic feature is a word that begins with a "c" and helps me understand the data I read in non-fiction story.