This is meant to access background information. Accept all answers and write them on the board beside the circle. You can remember the term initial by thinking of your initials. Put a student's initials on the board. The initials state for the first letter of each name.
Initial state stands for what something is like first .
The word state is not like the state of California. It means what something looks like. Let's look at this piece of white bread. Answering those questions will tell us about its state. Hopefully, they will think of attributes like soft, length, width, thickness.