What's the author's purpose?
"Dear Mom, I promise I will be good if you let me go to my friend's house. I will do all my homework, make my bed every day, and be nice to my little brother. Please let me go!"
What is persuade?
100
The clumsy girl felt _______ as she walked out onto the stage and fell.
What is awkward?
100
A rectangle has a length of 4 inches and a width of 3 inches. What is the area?
What is 12 square inches?
100
A square has a side with a width of 8 units. What is the perimeter?
What is 32 units?
200
When the author's purpose is to give the reader facts and true information to help them better understand a topic.
What is inform?
200
When my brother and I got too loud in the basement, Mom came down and shouted, "What's all this ________?"
What is ruckus?
200
A square has a length and width of 5 inches. What is the area?
What is 25 square inches?
200
A rectangle has a length of 6 and a width of 7. What is the perimeter?
What is 26 units?
300
When the author's purpose is to hold the reader's attention, most oftent through a fiction story.
What is entertain?
300
I do not want to _______ with your conversation, but I had to give you this important information right away.
What is interfere?
300
A parallelogram has an area of 54, with a base of 9 centimeters. What is the height of the parallelogram?
What is 6 centimeters?
300
A hexagon with all congruent sides has an perimeter of 42 inches. What is the measurement of each side?
What is 7 inches?
400
A type of figurative language an author uses to drop hints about what is going to happen later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The clumsy puppy ______ along, stumbling and falling as we went.
What is tottered?
400
A right triangle has a base of 6 and a height of 3. What is the area?
What is 9 square units?
400
A right triangle has a base of 5 inches, and hypotenuse of 9 inches, and a perimeter of 21 inches. What is the height?
What is 7 inches?
500
A type of figurative language an author uses in which they give human-like qualities to unhuman things.
What is personification?
500
Please give this note to your _______, so they can sign that you have permission to go on the field trip.
What is guardian?
500
A right triangle with two congruent sides has a base of 8. What is the area of this triangle?
What is 32 square units?
500
A rectangle has an area of 56 square. inches, with a height of 8 inches. What is the length? The perimeter?
What is the length is 7 inches and the perimeter is 30 inches?