Attributes Kate LaQuay and Carolyn LoGiudice
Skillll Ar Ski Area eas: s: Voc ocab abula ulary ry Reading Comprehension Language Ages: 6 through 8 Grades: 1 through 3
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About the Authors
Kate and Michael LaQuay
became part of LinguiSystem LinguiSystems’ s’ extende extended d Kate LaQuay, J.D., became family more than 20 years ago when her mother, Carolyn LoGiudice, joined the company company.. Now a mother herself, Kate has co-authored several LinguiSystems products, including U.S. Histo History: ry: A Reading Compre Comprehension hension Book , U.S. Government:: A Readin ernment Reading g Compreh Comprehension ension Game and Spotlight on Vocabulary: Levels 1 and 2 . Previously, she practiced law for six years in Los Angeles. Carolyn LoGiudice, M.S., CCC-SLP, was a speech-language clinician in school, clinic and private settings before joining LinguiSystems in 1984. She has co-authored many materials with LinguiSystems, including The WORD WORD Test , No-Glamour Vocabulary Cards, The Test of Semant Semantic ic Skill Skills s (TOSS-P (TOSS-P and TOSS-I), and the All-Star Vocabulary Vocabulary game.
Dedication For Michael, and the joy it will bring him to learn that words are just another playground
Illustrations by Margaret Warner Cover Design by Mike Paustian
Table of Contents Introduc Intr oduction tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Pretest/Posttest Pretest/Postte st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What Are Descr Describin ibing g Words? Words? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Colorr Words Colo Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Shapes Shape s .......................................... 9 Matching Matc hing Pict Picture ures s with with Words Words 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Matching Matc hing Pict Picture ures s with with Words Words 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Emotions Emot ions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Parts Part s 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Parts Part s 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Parts Part s 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Weather Wea ther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Airplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Pie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 People Peop le . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Sorting Pictu Sorting Pictures res 1 . . Sorting Sort ing Pictu Pictures res 2 . . Sorting Sort ing Pictu Pictures res 3 . . Naming Nami ng by by Attr Attribut ibute e
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Naming Descr Naming Describin ibing g Words Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Synonym Syno nym Desc Describi ribing ng Word Words s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Opposite Oppo site Desc Describi ribing ng Words Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Matching Des Matching Describ cribing ing Words Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Action Describing Describing Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finding Find ing Descr Describin ibing g Words Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Completi Comp leting ng Senten Sentences ces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Describi Desc ribing ng Tic-T Tic-Tac-T ac-Toe oe 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Describi Desc ribing ng Tic-T Tic-Tac-T ac-Toe oe 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Describi Desc ribing ng Tic-T Tic-Tac-T ac-Toe oe 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Completi Comp leting ng a Story Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Excludin Excl uding g Describ Describing ing Words Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Excludin Excl uding g Words Words to to Describ Describe e ......................... Describi Desc ribing ng Thing Things s1 ................................
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Describing Describi ng Thing Things s 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Introduction All students students need to expand their their working vocabularies. vocabularies. Some students students have a natural facility for for language and semantic relationships, enabling them to enlarge their vocabulary almost effortlessly. Simply reading, listening listening and talking seem to boost these students’ students’ vocabula vocabulary ry skills. Many other students need to exert conscious energy to understand and recall an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Some of them are poor or reluctant readers. Other students have limited exposure to a rich variety of spoken English. Still others have language-learning disabilities, attention disorders or ineffective systems for storing and retrievi retrieving ng vocabulary. vocabulary. All of these students can benefit from specific vocabulary exposure and instruction. They can improve their vocabulary skills through conscious attention and guided learning. The main goal of Spo Spotligh tlightt on Vocabul Vocabulary ary books books is to help student students s recognize recognize and use specific strategies to enrich their skills for understanding and using an increasingly rich vocabulary. Attributes teaches students the many ways we use words to describe things. These are the student objectives of this book:
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To understand that we can use words to describe things in many different ways
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To learn to describe what things look like, feel like, taste like, sound like, or smell like
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To use actions, functions or parts to describe things
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To exclude words that are not logical attributes of things
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To describe things
Here are some guidelines for doing the activities in this book with your students:
A CD of the activities in this book is included included inside the back cover. cover. You can photocopy photocopy the pages as necessary or print them directly from a printer.
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Have your students take the Pretest/Posttest (page 6) before they begin doing the activities in this book. When they have completed the book, have them retake the test and compare the results to their original scores.
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Use each word in a sentence as you present it to your students. Then ask a student to use it in another sentence.
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Make sure your students have ready access to a student-friendly dictionary and thesaurus. Encourage your students to consult these references while they’re doing the activities.
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Use an opaque bag or box to hide a few objects. Have your students take turns feeling and describing a mystery object from the bag/box for the other students to guess. Then display the object and help your students write all the ways to describe the object, including what it does/how we use it, what it looks like, what parts it has, where you find it, etc.
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Give your students lots of practice both in identifying things from descriptions and in describing things themselves. Be a good role model yourself by giving clear descriptions of things as you present various lessons and activities to your students.
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Use pictures of objects to play 20 Questions with your students. Each question should target an attribute (“a way to describe something”) in a yes/no format, such as Does it have wings? or Do we eat it?
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Cut out ads from magazines or newspapers. Have your students work in small groups to identify describing words and phrases. Have them explain these atrributes to the class.
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Have your students create want ads for a new teacher, a new student, or their favorite games. These want ads should feature lists of the desired attributes, such as Knows what students like to do or Tells great jokes.
We hope Attributes is a big hit with you and your students! Kate and Carolyn
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Pretest/Posttest Circle the describing word in each sentence. 1. I have fuzzy slippers on today. 2. Look at the brightest star in the sky. 3. There is a sleeping cat under the bed.
Cross out the word that cannot describe the bolded word in each row. 4. book
heavy
sour
large
tiny
5. child
sleepy
narrow
chilly
6. frog
croaking
leaping
reading
swimming
7. jar
plastic
clear
talking
open
8. city
noisy
sharp
large
busy
clever
Write two things that describe each word. 9. bird
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10. taco
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What Are Describing Words? Describing words are words that tell about something. Most describing words tell what something looks like, feels like, sounds like, smells like, or tastes like. Draw lines to connect each body part to the word that goes with the body part. 1.
pretty
2.
rough
3.
yummy
4.
loud
5.
smelly
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Color Words Color each picture after you tell the color or colors it can be.
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Shapes 1. Circle each thing that is shaped like a circle.
2. Circle each thing that is shaped like a triangle.
3. Circle each thing that is shaped like a square.
4. Circle each thing that is shaped like a rectangle.
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Matching Pictures with Words 1 Draw a line to match each picture with the best describing word. 1.
frozen
2.
muddy
3.
asleep
4.
loud
5.
strong
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Matching Pictures with Words 2 Draw a line to match each picture with the best describing word. 1.
heavy
2.
silly
3.
worn
4.
wet
5.
tall
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Emotions Circle the word that best describes how each person feels.
1.
mad
happy
lonely
2.
angry
surprised
happy
3.
tired
merry
sad
4.
joyful
grumpy
jolly
5.
tired
asleep
proud
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Parts 1 Circle each picture of something that has legs.
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Parts 2 Circle each picture of something that has a wheel.
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Parts 3 Circle each picture of something that has a hole.
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Weather Draw a line from each weather symbol to a word it matches. 1.
cloudy
2.
rainy
3.
snowy
4.
partly cloudy
5.
sunny
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Airplane Check the box beside each word or phrase that describes an airplane.
1.
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has wings
8.
❑
is curly
2.
❑
on Monday
9.
❑
is noisy
3.
❑
flies
10.
❑
has a pilot
4.
❑
carries passengers
11.
❑
has wheels
5.
❑
windy
12.
❑
has a tail
6.
❑
has windows
13.
❑
is salty
7.
❑
has engines
14.
❑
every day
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Pie Check the box beside each word or phrase that describes both of these pies.
Pie B
Pie A
1.
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have a topping
8.
❑
crunchy
2.
❑
have a flaky crust
9.
❑
sweet
3.
❑
are on plates
10.
❑
thick
4.
❑
triangular shape
11.
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hot
5.
❑
made of sliced apples
12.
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square and soft
6.
❑
delicious
13.
❑
gooey
7.
❑
for breakfast
14.
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desserts
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People Circle the best word in each row to describe these people.
1.
f ather
child
baby
2.
daughter
brother
parent
3.
woman
uncle
nephew
4.
son
child
man
5.
sister
father
lady
6.
children
brothers
babies
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Sorting Pictures 1 Cut these pictures apart. Sort them into cold or warm things. Then mix them together and resort them into things to eat or drink and fun things to do.
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Sorting Pictures 2 Cut these pictures apart. Sort them into fast things or slow things. Then mix them together and resort them into living things and man-made things.
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Sorting Pictures 3 Cut these pictures apart. Sort them into big things or small things. Then mix them together and resort them into inside things and outside things.
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Naming by Attribute Color part of the bear each time you answer correctly. 1. Name something that is dangerous to do. 2. Name something that has a tail. 3. Name something healthy to eat. 4. Name something sharp. 5. Name something bumpy. 6. Name something square. 7. Name something stiff. 8. Name something hard to do.
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Naming Describing Words Color a spot of paint each time you answer correctly. 1. Tell two words that describe a trash can. 2. Tell two words that describe bubble gum. 3. Tell two words that describe a rainbow. 4. Tell two words that describe a toothbrush. 5. Tell two words that describe a fire truck. 6. Tell two words that describe a rabbit. 7. Tell two words that describe the ocean. 8. Tell two words that describe a pencil. 9. Tell two words that describe a party. 10. Tell two words that describe a fly.
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Synonym Describing Words Draw a line to match each describing word below the below the ✰.
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❑ with its synonym
✰
1.
terrible
hairy
2.
furry
clever
3.
giant
huge
4.
easy
fast
5.
quick
horrible
6.
smart
simple
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Opposite Describing Words Draw a line to match each describing word below the below the ✰.
❑
❑ with its opposite
✰
1.
beautiful
closed
2.
old
plain
3.
full
young
4.
open
thick
5.
fancy
empty
6.
thin
ugly
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Matching Describing Words Draw a line to match each describing word below the describe below the ✰.
❑
❑ with something it could
✰
1.
flashing
faces
2.
sinking
lizard
3.
smiling
snow
4.
falling
lights
5.
whistling
wind
6.
leaping
ship
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Action Describing Words Underline the best action describing word to complete each sentence. 1. My _____________ brother is missing the whole show.
sleeping
shaking
shouting
2. I can hear my neighbor’s ___________ dogs.
watching
singing
barking
3. I’m so scared! Look at my ____________ hands.
crawling
shaking
spinning
4. The pool was full of _________ kids.
driving
walking
splashing
5. The weather forecast is for _________ rain.
freezing
cleaning
eating
6. That ________ frog must have something to say!
sniffing
hiding
croaking
7. I want to be a _______ ballerina when I grow up.
crying
dancing
cooking
8. That __________ dog must have picked up the scent.
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Finding Describing Words Circle the describing word in each sentence. 1. I like to fly kites on windy days.
2. A sleepy cat napped in the sun.
3. I hear a crying baby.
4. Karis brushed her long hair.
5. We will buy fresh bread at the store.
6. Kevin fell on the slippery ice.
7. Kim hung the wet clothes out to dry.
8. Use a yellow marker to draw the sun.
9. The biggest suitcase will not fit in the trunk.
10. Bright lights flashed on the stage.
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Completing Sentences Choose the best describing word from the box to complete each sentence. Write your answers in the blanks.
brief dim
calm dull
damp famous
delicious favorite
1. We rowed boats across the _________________________ lake.
2. I wrote a _________________________ note to Grandma.
3. Our tent was _________________________ from the dew.
4. Mom makes _________________________ fudge.
5. We saw a _________________________ light through the window.
6. My knife is too _________________________ to cut well.
7. Uncle Ted is a _________________________ author.
8. My _________________________ sport is soccer.
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Describing Tic-Tac-Toe 1 Play this tic-tac-toe game with a partner. To earn your square, name three things that can be described by the word in that square. Then use your describing word in a good sentence. For example, if the word is bright, you could name these three things and say this sentence: light
star
eyes
I have a bright idea!
The first player to earn three squares in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) wins the game.
rotten
tight
soft
slow
brown
sour
dark
messy
wide
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Describing Tic-Tac-Toe 2 Play this tic-tac-toe game with a partner. To earn your square, name three things that can be described by the word in that square. Then use your describing word in a good sentence. For example, if the word is dirty, you could name these three things and say this sentence: shirt
face
look
I cleaned the dirty windows.
The first player to earn three squares in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) wins the game.
inside
flat
sweet
open
large broken
safe
purple smooth
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Describing Tic-Tac-Toe 3 Play this tic-tac-toe game with a partner. To earn your square, name three things that can be described by the word in that square. Then use your describing word in a good sentence. For example, if the word is full, you could name these three things and say this sentence: stomach
glass
load
My desk is full of papers.
The first player to earn three squares in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) wins the game.
tame
mild
useful straight loud
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round frozen
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Completing a Story Choose a word from the box to write in each blank in the story. Use each word only once.
awesome
seventh
craft
short
cute
smiling
new
soft
puppet
stiff
rubber
talented
My __________________ sister makes puppets to earn money. She uses scraps of __________________ fabric to make the bodies. She uses __________________ felt to make the hands. She buys the __________________ heads from a __________________ store. My sister made me a __________________ puppet for my __________________ birthday. It’s so __________________! It has __________________ hair and a __________________ face. Next week I’m going to give a __________________ show for my family. My show will be __________________!
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Excluding Describing Words Cross out the word that cannot describe the bolded word in each row. 1. apple
firm
red
round
rapid
rusty
loud
wild
hairy
bumpy
light
soft
natural
cold
stale
falling
wet
5. face
happy
smiling
dirty
early
6. star
windy
bright
shooting
faraway
7. ocean
big
deep
living
brave
8. box
sick
full
closed
empty
2. lion
3. feather
4. snow
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Excluding Words to Describe Cross out the word that cannot be described by the bolded word in each row. 1. sweet
garbage
candy
peach
chocolate
2. noisy
fireworks
library
circus
train
3. smooth
rock
skin
dream
surface
4. clear
sky
glass
eyes
book
5. square
moon
box
window
paper
6. tight
rope
day
clothing
shoes
7. slow
pencil
truck
turtle
boat
8. high
kite
clouds
breakfast
airplane
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Describing Things 1 Write three words that describe each thing. Think about what parts it has, what it does, and what it looks like. Use different words to describe each one.
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Describing Things 2 Write three words that describe each thing. Think about what parts it has, what it does, and what it looks like. Use different words to describe each one.
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Answer Key The most likely answers are listed here. Accept other logical, appropriate answers as correct. Page 6 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
fuzzy brightest sleeping sour narrow reading talking sharp Answers will vary. Answers will vary.
Page 7 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
pretty yummy loud smelly rough
Page 8 Answers will vary. Accept all appropriate colors.
Page 9 1. 2. 3. 4.
balloon, pumpkin flag, sign stamp, picture pan, pillow
Page 10 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
muddy asleep strong frozen loud
Page 11 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
silly tall worn heavy wet
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happy angry sad grumpy tired
Page 13 spider, horse, woman, pants, easel, chair, kangaroo, pig, dog
Page 14 train, wagon, wheelchair, truck, hamster cage, bicycle, in-line skates, scooter, car
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
ribbon spool, doughnut, mask, pretzel, cup, scissors, Swiss cheese, tire, toaster, ring
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
snowy sunny rainy cloudy partly cloudy
Page 17 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
check no check check check no check check check no check check check check check no check no check
check check no check check no check check no check no check check check no check no check check check
Page 22 big things - lamp, snowman, stove, scooter, bus, couch, elephant small things - bee, paper clip, crayon, butterfly, squirrel inside things - lamp, paper clip, crayon, stove, couch outside things - bee, snowman, butterfly, scooter, squirrel, bus, elephant
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slow things - wagon, snail, turtle, hot air balloon, tractor, cow living things - snail, turtle, cheetah, horse, cow, tiger man-made things wagon, airplane, hot air balloon, rocket, train, tractor
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baby brother woman child father children
Page 20 cold things - milkshake, milk, Popsicle, ice-cream cone, snowman, ice skating warm things - pancakes, hotdog, fire/blanket, spaghetti, pie, pizza things to eat or drink milkshake, pancakes, milk, hotdog, Popsicle, ice-cream cone, spaghetti, pie, pizza fun things to do - keep warm by a fire, make a snowman, ice skate
Page 21 fast things - airplane, cheetah, rocket, train, horse, tiger
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Pages 23-24 Answers will vary.
Page 25 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
horrible hairy huge simple fast clever
Page 26 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
ugly young empty closed plain thick
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