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What are "Language of the
Standards?"
Each grade level at Bell's Crossing chose
vocabulary words for each subject that are essential for students to know at
each grade. Language of the Standards terms are reviewed on a regular basis in
the classroom in a variety of ways. Each day five words from one subject are
randomly chosen and students are "quizzed" on these words. These quizzes will
occur in a variety of formats - sometimes students are asked to give the
meanings, other times they are asked for the words, while other times they are
required to apply the terms in context. These quizzes are never graded, but
are graphed in our data center and our class continues to try to "beat our
score" each week. This provides a constant review and preview of important
terms for the year. All students should have mastered these concepts by the
end of the year!
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our Language of the Standards PowerPoint!
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Language Arts
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Math
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1. When
comparing two things, you are finding why they are alike.
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When contrasting two things, you are finding why they are different.
3.
The problem of a story is when something happens that needs to be resolved.
4.
The solution of the story is how the problem is resolved.
5.
The plot of a story is what the story is about.
6.
Similies are when you compare one thing to something else.
7.
Alliteration is when you write a sentence that has a lot of the same beginning
sounds.
8.
Inflectional endings are parts that you add to the end of a word to change the
meaning.
9.
An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
10.
A dictionary is a reference book that tells the meaning of a word.
11.
A thesaurus is a book that gives the writer other choices for words.
12.
The subject of a sentence is what the sentence is about.
13.
The predicate of a sentence is what the subject is doing in the sentence.
14.
A synonym is a word that means the same thing.
15.
An antonym is the opposite of a word.
16.
A contraction is a small word that is made of two bigger words.
17.
A homonym is a word that sounds the same but has a different spelling.
18.
A base word is a word before you add an ending.
19.
A topic sentence is the sentence that you use to start a paragraph.
20.
A topic sentence is the sentence that you use to start a paragraph.
21.
When you revise, you make a paragraph better.
22.
When you edit, you make a paragraph correct.
23.
When you brainstorm, you gather ideas.
24.
When you publish, you share your writing with others.
25.
The author’s point of view is how the author feels when he is writing.
26.
A letter is a way to communicate with someone else.
27.
Friendly letters include date, greeting, body, closing, and signature.
28.
An informational piece of writing is to write information about a topic.
29.
A prediction is when you make a guess about what is going to happen.
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1. An analog clock tells the time
using a minute and hour hand.
2. A
digital clock tells the exact time in numbers.
3. A
quarter is worth 25 cents.
4. A
nickel is worth 5 cents.
5. A
penny is worth 1 cents.
6. A
dime is worth 10 cents.
7. A
dollar sign goes before the amount of money.
8.
Regrouping is when you carry the number when adding.
9.
Borrowing is when you take a ten to make more ones.
10.
What number is in the ones, tens, or hundreds place? (Give example!)
11.
The four cardinal directions are north, south, east, and west.
12.
Ordinal numbers are used when you put things in order.
13.
Rounding is when you round the number to the nearest ten.
14.
There are 12 inches in a foot.
15.
A centimeter is smaller than an inch.
16.
Temperature tells how hot or cold it is outside or inside.
17.
Less likely means that it probably won’t happen.
18.
More likely means that it probably will happen.
19.
There are 365 days in a year.
20.
There are 60 minutes in an hour.
21.
There are 60 seconds in a minute.
22.
A quarter-hour is every fifteen minutes.
23.
Mental math is when you do a math problem in your head.
24.
A tally mark is where you make a slash for every number, counting by fives.
25.
Put in order from largest to smallest. (liter, gallons, quarts, pints, and
cups.)
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Science
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Social Studies
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The customary measurement system
uses feet, gallons, and pounds as units of measure.
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The metric measurement system uses
meters, liters, and grams as units of measure.
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Data is information that is
collected during observations and written down with words, graphs, or
pictures.
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A balance scale is a tool used to
measure the mass of something.
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A thermometer is a tool used to
measure the amount heat that something has.
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A mammal is warm-blooded, has fur or
hair, has live babies, and breathes with lungs.
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An amphibian has moist skin, lays
jelly-like eggs, and is cold-blooded.
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A reptile has dry scaly skin,
breathes with lungs and is cold-blooded.
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A fish breathes with gills, has
scales, is cold-blooded, and lives in the water.
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An insect has three main body parts,
six legs, two antennae, and many have wings.
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A bird is warm-blooded, breathes
with lungs, lays eggs, and is covered with feathers.
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The home of a living thing is its habitat
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If an animal changes its form as it goes through
the stages of its life (like a frog or butterfly does) that is called metamorphosis.
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A woodland forest is an environment that
gets enough rain and warmth for many trees to grow.
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Weather is the changing conditions
of temperature, clouds, precipitation, and wind.
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The Beaufort scale is a way to
measure the speed of the wind.
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Precipitation is any form of water
that falls from clouds such as rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
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Fahrenheit is the scale of numbers
used on a customary measurement thermometer and Celsius is the
scale on a metric thermometer.
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Temperature is the amount of heat
that something has in it.
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A rain gauge is a tool used to
measure how much rain has fallen.
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A wind vane is a tool used to show
the direction of the wind.
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A magnet is a solid material that
attracts iron or things that contain iron like steel.
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The strongest areas on a magnet are its poles.
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Like poles (north and north, or south and south) repel
or push away from each other.
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Opposite poles (north and south) attract
or pull toward each other.
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Everything that has weight and takes up space is
made of matter.
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Mass is the amount of matter that is
in an object.
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When you can put two or more things together and
take them apart again you have made a mixture.
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A solid is a kind of matter that
keeps its own shape.
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A liquid is a kind of matter that
takes the shape of its container and can usually be poured.
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