Word Components: Perfect Squares

1. Word Components: Perfect Squares RE DUCE PRO VOKE Students are given Ziplock Bags that contain small cards with several prefixes and roots written on them. They need to find a combination of prefixes and roots that will produce a word if combined both horizontally and diagonally. Model: Four words: reduce, revoke produce, provoke Example: Mountain, Lee. “Flip-a-chip to Build Vocabulary. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 46:1. September 2002.

2. Word Components: Perfect Squares RE DUCE PRO VOKE Then, students are asked to write a cloze paragraph on an index card in which each of the four words of the perfect square would fit in to the blanks. (See example below.) Students insert the index card into the baggie and exchange with another group. Example of a cloze paragraph for the perfect square above: Mrs. Benjamin was vexed. “My students,” she declared_______ me when they are late to class. They_________one excuse after another. I want to ________ the number of lateness to class, so I’ll _______ the privilege of using the lavatory pass to any student who arrives late.”

3. Suggested Perfect Squares: a gressive re version gressive version re clusive ex tract clusive tract gress active pro retro con fer de duct fer duct bi lateral uni cycle lateral cycle in cur oc clude cur clude re duce intro spective duce spective re cycle uni verse cycle verse com putation re ply putation ply ex plain com pel plain pel com munity im pact munity pact dis tortion ex tended tortion tended re tort con vert tort vert co herent in vert herent vert im pair re ply pair ply

4. Suggested Perfect Squares: im ex port pel ex sup pose plicate ference gress con trans pro re duce pel pro re vision pel in pro scribe ject sub in ject scription pro de mise mote at re tain tract con re tract verse per re spire tain re en treat tail ex de ception position re in volve vert de trans scribe port

5. Suggested Perfect Squares: im ex port plicate con per ception tain re re ceive duce intro re spective vert per de ception scription ex at tend tract trans re late port late port pro de mise mote pro re cess tract com re ply pulsive ap re ply peal at de tain tract ex at tract tend re trans versal port com re plicate pulsive

6. Suggested Perfect Squares: re de fine flect com re mand mission clude tense in pre con ex clusion tend trans in form fer in re quest fer con trans gress form pro de mote tect at con tention tract im ex plode plicit re e voke mit in re novate form ad re vise mit a con spire flict in re formation fuse