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Week 35

A Word a Day

sympathetic

A sympathetic lady gave the hungry boy
A
adjective some food.

A
A sympathetic
person is Who was sympathetic?
understanding of • Julie and Jess teased Austin about his new glasses.

other people’s problems • Darrin played with a new student who had no friends.
and tries to help. • Bart helped Charlie clean up the paint that Charlie
spilled.
• Mom hugged me when I felt upset.

• Curt laughed when Walt dropped the ball.

When have you felt sympathetic with someone who
was sad or hurt? What did you do to show that you were
sympathetic?

tally

David will tally the scores to see which team
verb won the game.

When you tally
y
numbers or things, Why might you tally numbers of people or things?
you count them to • to see how many students are in the first grade
find the total. • to see if it is cloudy today

• to figure out what day it is

• to add up the runs scored in a baseball game
• to find how many students like cats best and how many
like dogs best

Pretend we want to find out which ice-cream flavor is the
y
class favorite. How would we tally to find the answer?

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