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Study the word DISTRACT: (Source) To distract someone is to drag away their focus: to pull away their attention. When you're distracted, something has taken your focus and your attention away. You're trying to do one thing, but you get distracted by a different thing. If something distracts you while you're working, you stop being focused on your work: you stop paying attention to your work. Distractions can make you waste time and make mistakes. (Source) You might be talking with someone, and then get distracted by a noise, a movement, or even a sudden thought. Something has taken your focus away from your conversation. (Source)   Make a flash card: You can write your own definition and choose your own picture, or copy mine. Term Definition Picture distract to make someone suddenly look at or think about something different   Write your own sentence! You can use either of the two ideas I'll suggest, or you can invent your own. Include as much detail as you can! (Source)   Write a sentence with the word DISTRACT: Remember: when you're busy trying to do something and something else distracts you, it grabs away your focus and makes you pay attention to it. Idea 1: "It's distracting when I'm trying to (do something) but (something noisy keeps happening).” Idea 2: "You shouldn't (do some crazy or noisy thing) when other people are trying to (do something), because you'll distract them." You can type in here. When you're done, copy and paste your sentence wherever you'd like it to go.