Word Components: Perfect SquaresStudents 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 willproduce a word if combined both horizontally and diagonally.

Model:

Example: Four words:reduce, revokeproduce, provoke

Mountain, Lee. “Flip-a-chip to Build Vocabulary.Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 46:1. September 2002.

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Word Components: Perfect Squares

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Students insert the index cardinto the baggie and exchangewith another group.

Example of a cloze paragraph for the perfect square above:

Suggested Perfect Squares:

pro retro

com putationre ply

in curoc clude

re clusiveex tract

com munityim pact

re duceintro spective

con ferde duct

a gressivere version

bi lateraluni cycle

re cycleuni verse

dis tortionex tended

re tortcon vert

im pairre ply

co herentin vert

ex plaincom pel

gressactive

lateralcycle

tortiontended

tortvert

clusivetract

gressiveversion

putationply

curclude

cycleverse

munitypact

pairply

plainpel

herentvert

ferduct

ducespective

Suggested Perfect Squares:

con trans

at re

in pro

ex sup

per re

sub in

pro re

im ex

pro re

pro de

re en

ex de

de trans

re in

con re

ference gress

tain tract

scribe ject

pose plicate

spire tain

jectscription

ducepel

portpel

vision pel

mise mote

treattail

ceptionposition

scribeport

volve vert

tract verse

im ex

ply peal

late port

spective vert

port plicate

cess tract

tend tract

ception tain

versal port

ply pulsive

ceive duce

ception scription

mise mote

tain tract

tract tend

Suggested Perfect Squares:

re re

pro re

ex at

con per

ap re

trans re

per de

pro de

at de

ex at

re trans

com re

plicate pulsive

com re

late port

intro re

clude tense

clusion tend

Suggested Perfect Squares:

in pre

re de

con ex

at con

im ex

ad re

trans in con trans

re e

a con

com re

in re

pro de

in re

in re

tentiontract

plodeplicit

visemit

fine flect

form fer

gressform

vokemit

spireflict

mand mission

quest fer

mote tect

novate form

formation fuse