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This week's vocabulary words are downstairs, nervous, chuckled, nonsense, fumbled, and trudged. The document provides the definition, part of speech, an example sentence, and a question for each word to help students understand and remember the meanings. It is a vocabulary lesson plan from Miss Bellotti for the first week introducing six new words and engaging students through examples and questions about when they have experienced each word.
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Identify the sentence types.
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