four-square concept map on the back of your vocabulary cards. You
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and examples and non-examples all in one place. When reviewing
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developed by vocabulary researchers and educators Blachowicz
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a swindler who arrives in the town marketplace, “mounts
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can organize your vocabulary notebook into the traditional Cornell
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four-square concept map, and so on