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- Main Idea
- The central point or most important message of a text, often supported by details throughout the passage.
- Inference
- A logical conclusion drawn from clues in the text combined with what you already know, not directly stated.
- Summary
- A brief statement that restates the main idea and key details of a text in your own words, without personal opinion.
- Author's Purpose
- The reason an author writes a text, such as to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain.
- Text Features
- Elements like titles, headings, captions, bold words, and diagrams that help readers locate and understand information.
- Topic Sentence
- A sentence, usually at the beginning of a paragraph, that states the main idea of that paragraph.
- Supporting Details
- Facts, examples, or reasons that explain or prove the main idea in a paragraph or passage.
- Transition Words
- Words like 'however', 'therefore', or 'first' that show how ideas in a text are connected.
- Complete Sentence
- A group of words that has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought.
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- The rule that a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb.
- Editing
- The stage of writing where you correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar errors.
- Revision
- The stage of writing where you improve the content, organization, and clarity of ideas.
- Context Clues
- Words or phrases around an unknown word that help you figure out its meaning.
- Fact vs. Opinion
- A fact can be proven true; an opinion expresses a belief or feeling that cannot be proven.
- Compare and Contrast
- A text structure that explains how things are similar (compare) and how they are different (contrast).
- Cause and Effect
- A text structure that explains why something happened (cause) and what happened as a result (effect).
- Order of Operations
- The rule for evaluating expressions: parentheses, exponents, multiplication/division (left to right), addition/subtraction (left to right).
- Area of Rectangle
- The number of square units inside a rectangle, calculated as length × width.
- Area of Triangle
- The number of square units inside a triangle, calculated as ½ × base × height.
- Perimeter
- The total distance around a polygon, found by adding the lengths of all its sides.
- Common Denominator
- A shared multiple of the denominators of two or more fractions, used to add or subtract them.
- Reciprocal
- The number you multiply a given number by to get 1; for a fraction a/b, the reciprocal is b/a.
- Equivalent Ratios
- Ratios that express the same relationship, obtained by multiplying or dividing both terms by the same nonzero number.
- Percent
- A ratio that compares a number to 100; for example, 25% means 25 out of 100.
- Mean
- The average of a set of numbers, found by adding all values and dividing by the number of values.
- Median
- The middle value in a set of numbers arranged in order from least to greatest.
- Mode
- The value that appears most often in a set of data.
- Probability
- The chance that an event will occur, calculated as favorable outcomes ÷ total equally likely outcomes.
- Ordered Pair
- A pair of numbers (x, y) that gives the location of a point on a coordinate plane.
- Variable
- A letter or symbol that represents an unknown number in an expression or equation.
- Equation
- A mathematical sentence that shows two expressions are equal, using an equals sign.
- Prime Number
- A whole number greater than 1 that has exactly two factors: 1 and itself.