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WordGirl: Dehydrated

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WordGirl: Dehydrated
1 min3rd4th5thReading & Writing (ELA)
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Summary

A quick PBS KIDS WordGirl vocabulary clip. The word is dehydrated — having lost too much water, or dried out. A one-minute warm-up that pairs nicely with a health or science lesson too.

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Discussion

This clip teaches the word dehydrated — having lost too much water.

  1. What does dehydrated mean? What helps a person who is dehydrated?
  2. What food becomes dehydrated when it's dried out (like raisins)?
  3. Use dehydrated in a sentence.

Quick work-a-long

Word: dehydrated — having lost too much water; dried out.

Try it: Name one dried (dehydrated) food and write a sentence using the word.