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| Of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first; the first letter of a word or name. President George Washington's initials were GW, and he was the initial president of the U.S.A. |
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| An example that makes a point. The Harry Potter books, for instance, have proven to be popular with both children and adults. |
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| To act upon each other. When a soccer ball and your foot interact, the ball can go quite a distance. You are supposed to interact with your partner when you are reading "cop cars" style. |
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| To provide an acceptable explanation for something. It is hard to justify not completing an assignment when Mr. Taylor has given you two hours in class to work on it. |
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| A single thickness of the same material or covering. Sydney brought a chocolate layer cake to class for her birthday. |
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| 1) A connection between places, persons, events or things; to join together. |
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| To place; to set in a chosen spot or position; to place yourself; to settle; to take up your home. Many people locate in Tucson because they like the warm winters. |
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| To make as large as possible. If you want to maximize your enjoyment of Mr. Taylor's class, you must follow instructions. |
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| Of little importance. The punctuation errors in Michael's paragraph were minor. |
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| To deny the existence, evidence or truth of; to take the opposite position; to cause negative results. One good Read and Response will not negate ten bad ones. |
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| How something turns out; the result of a plan, process, accident or effort. |
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| Someone who works or plays with another person. Alyia was my cop cars reading partner. |
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| A view or outlook on some subject. One philosophy of life says that if you work hard and do your best, you will be successful. |
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| Having to do with the body or material world. Science studies the physical world. |
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| A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number. |
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| To issue a printed work for sale and distribution; to enter information on an internet site. Mr. Taylor has been able to publish a book on Reading Boot Camp, and he also publishes information about reading on his website. |
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| To respond in some way to a force, idea, surprise, etc. It is hard not to react to some of the action in a 3D movie. |
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| To sign up for something like school or soccer; to have an idea "sink in" to your brain. |
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| To trust; to depend upon. If you want to be successful you must learn to rely on yourself to get your work done. |
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| To take something away. It is very hard to remove permanent marker designs from your hands. |
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| A plan for future action; to plan something sneaky. The students had a secret scheme to surprise the teacher on her birthday. |
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| The order of events or things. Every game has a sequence that must be followed. |
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| Either of two main classes (male or female) of an organism. What sex is that hamster? |
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| To change; to move from one place to another; to change position. Mr. Taylor had to shift the tables around for the new class. |
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| To state clearly or in detail. Mr. Taylor will specify the information that has to be included in your science report. |
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| Enough; able to meet. We'll die in the desert if we do not drink sufficient water. |
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| A piece of assigned work; an assignment; an objective; a job. One task I had as a child was washing dishes. |
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| Having to do with science or machines; the specific words used in science, math, engineering, business, etc. Flint Technical High School had technical courses, including math, science, drafting and machine shop. |
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| A special skill or set of skills needed to be good at something: painting; sports; surgery; writing, etc. Famous painters each have some technique that makes their artwork special. |
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| The tools and science produced by a given society. There is technology in your classroom that didn't exist just a few years ago. |
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| Correct; proper; true. It is against the law to drive a car unless you have a valid driver's license. |
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| The amount of something (homework); the loudness of sound; amount of space, measured in cubic centimeters, cubic, inches, cubic feet, or pints, quarts, gallons, liters. etc. |
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