What does expand mean. Write a sentence using the word expand.
To get bigger
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What is an attic? How does the word attic relate to the story?
The attic is the room right under the roof. Barry and his family had to escape through the roof.
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What does criticize mean?
To give critical or negative opinions of something or someone.
100
What does behavior mean?
The way a person acts.
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Identify the suffix in the following word and use it in a sentence as a verb and as an adjective.
struggling
To struggle means to try very hard to do something.
I am struggling in my engineering class.
The struggling student was depressed because she had failed the final exam.
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What does provide mean? Write a sentence using this word.
To make available, furnish
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What was not allowed at the Superdome?
animals
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What does corrupt mean? Use the word as a verb
To cause something to become dishonest.
To change something from its original form.
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What does murder mean? What type of programming might feature a story about murder?
Murder means to kill someone. Suspense, horror, crime or mystery tv shows might show a murder.
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What does contribute mean? Identify the prefix.
To give something such as time, money or help to another.
Con is the prefix.
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What does demonstrate mean? Change this verb to a noun
To show. Demonstration
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Who is Akivo? How does Akivo help Barry?
Akivo is a super hero. Akivo is brave and helps Barry be brave.
300
What does poisonous mean? What part of speech is this?
very harmful, adj.
300
Do you think media negatively affects children? Write a sentence to support your answer.
Some sentences might include the word addicted, depressed, angry, pessimistic, aggressive
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What is a suggestion? What is the suffix in this word
Something that is given as advice. tion
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What does boycott mean? Use the word in a sentence.
To stop using, buying or not attend an event.
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Does Barry get reunited with his family? Where?
Yes, at the bridge.
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What are fumes? Give an example of one kind of fumes.
Strong smells of air or smoke. Cigarette fumes, exhaust fumes
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What happens to a person's brain after it watches a minute or two of visual media?
A person's mind relaxes.
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Look at the word confess. What is the prefix? Make another word from confess by changing the prefixing or adding a suffix.
confession, unconfessed, confessional, profess
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What does investigate mean. Change this word from a verb to a person.
To examine, search, study.
Investigator
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What do you think is the main theme of this book? Support your idea with a complete sentence.
Answers will vary.
500
What form of speech is the word aggressive? Use this word in a sentence to show that you understand the meaning.
Adj.
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What does it mean to stop a behavior "cold turkey?"
It means to stop that action immediately. For example, if a person quits smoking "cold turkey", they don't have another cigarette at all.
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What do the following words have in common? Psychologists, biologists, scientists
What do this words describe?
Write any other words that are similar
The have the suffix "ist" in common. The words all describe someone who does something.