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    The document provides examples of replacing underlined verbs in passages with more powerful verbs from a suggested vocabulary list. It includes excerpts from stories where the verbs are replaced, such as Goldilocks wandering and discovering a house in the forest instead of just walking and finding it.

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    The document provides examples of replacing underlined verbs in passages with more powerful verbs from a suggested vocabulary list. It includes excerpts from stories where the verbs are replaced, such as Goldilocks wandering and discovering a house in the forest instead of just walking and finding it.

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    The document provides examples of replacing underlined verbs in passages with more powerful verbs from a suggested vocabulary list. It includes excerpts from stories where the verbs are replaced, such as Goldilocks wandering and discovering a house in the forest instead of just walking and finding it.

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    Sapna Shah
    The document provides examples of replacing underlined verbs in passages with more powerful verbs from a suggested vocabulary list. It includes excerpts from stories where the verbs are replaced, such as Goldilocks wandering and discovering a house in the forest instead of just walking and finding it.

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    Copy out this passage replacing the underlined verbs with more

    powerful ones.

    Suggested Words: Also use words from the vocabulary booklet.

    strolling slipped discovered creep stumbled upon


    wandering gulped gobbled sighed hammered exclaimed
    sneak slurped spotted sipped stuffed rolled shout slipped
    peeked strip swept riding yell swung snatched sneaked
    grabbed slung,offered, clasped, dozed off, to sleep

    Once upon a time there lived a little girl called Goldilocks. One day,
    Goldilocks was ___________________ (walking ) in the forest and
    found a house. She knocked at the door, and when nobody
    ________________ (said), she decided to _______________(go)
    inside. At the table there were three bowls of porridge. Goldilocks was
    hungry. She ______________(tried) the porridge from the large bowl.
    "This porridge is too salty!" she___________ (said).
    She_____________( tried )the porridge from the medium bowl. "This
    porridge is too sweet!" she___________( said). She__________(
    tried) the porridge from the small bowl. "This porridge is just right," she
    ____________(said) and she put it all up. Goldilocks
    was______________( tired), so she ________________(walked) into
    the living room and three chairs. She _____________(sat) in the large
    chair to rest her feet. "This chair is too big!" she
    ______________(said).

    One day, the magic mirror___________( told )the queen that Snow
    White was the fairest in the land. The queen was very angry and told
    one of her huntsmen to kill Snow White. The huntsman
    ______________(found) Snow White but instead of killing her he
    ______________(told) her about the queen and so Snow White
    _______________ (went) away to the forest. While
    _________(walking) through the forest, she ____________( saw) a
    strange little house. She ______________(went) inside where she
    ____________ (found) that the house was very messy! When the
    queen heard where Snow White was living, she disguised herself as
    an old lady and went to find her. When she left the little house, she
    _____________ (gave) Snow White a poisoned red apple. As soon as
    Snow White _____________ ( took )the first bite, she__________ fell
    down fast asleep!

    Puss _____________ ( put) some lettuce in the bag, pretended to be


    dead and waited. Soon, a curious rabbit puts its head in. Puss
    _____________(picked ) up the bag and caught it. He then
    _________________(put) the bag over his shoulder and _________
    (went) towards the palace, where he ________________(gave) the
    rabbit to the king ________________( saying), "This is a gift from my
    master, the Marquis of Carabas." The next day, Puss pretended to be
    dead again and caught a pair of partridges. Again, he took them to the
    palace and told the king they were from the Marquis of Carabas. One
    day Puss heard the king would be_______________________( going)
    past a nearby river in his royal coach. Puss ________________( told )
    his master to take off all his clothes and bathe in the river. When the
    king's carriage ____________________(came )into sight, Puss began
    to ________________(say loudly) ,"Help, help! My lord the Marquis
    of Carabas is drowning!"

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