My Private Dictionary

 

This dictionary belongs to: ______________________________________________

Directions:

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The words that go into this dictionary do not have to be in alphabetical order.

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Each day the teacher will give me 2 words to add to my dictionary.

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I will also have to find 2 more words that I think are interesting or I do not know and add them to my dictionary as well.

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I have to find the words in the chapter that was read and write down the sentence in which the word appears.

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Then I have to write down what I think the word means by the way it's used in the sentence.

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Then I have to look it up in the dictionary and write down what the word really means

The sample below will help me do this correctly.

Word

Sentence in book

What it means to me

Dictionary definition

Bare

It was painfully bare; clean, but bare.

Bare means empty.

To be empty or unadorned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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