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Gallagher 30-15-10 Activities: Word sort: Categorize words into groups.PrefixSuffixRoot wordsExamplesWORDO: BINGO Password: Divide class into two teams. One person from each team sits in front of the class. Those two people receive a card with a vocabulary word. The first person gives a one-word clue to his/her team. If no one from the team can guess, the second person gives a clue to his/her team. This alternates until someone from the team guesses the word.Pictionary: Give every student a list of words. Have them come up to the board and illustrate. Audience has to guess words. Let students guess once or twice per drawing in order to prevent random guesses.Word Webs:Ask students to brainstorm three words that they know that contain the root, and then write the words in the circles. (Students might think of magnify, magnanimous, and magnificent.) Ask them what the definitions of the three words are that they gave you, and guide them to realize they can figure out the -magn- means "large" or "grand." Therefore, they can most likely figure out the definition of a word they don't know that contains the root -magn-.\Example: Write the common prefix un- in the center of the word web. Ask students to brainstorm three words they know that begin with un-, and write them in the circles. Help students "break apart" the words they gave you, leading them to recognize that unmeans "not." Point out that by knowing what un- and the base word means, they can figure out the definition of the word. For example, if students know that un- means "not" and ready means "prepared," then they can figure out that unready means "not prepared" or "not ready." Words:Students will create “nonsense words” using a combination of the roots learned and be able to define these words: e.g. ‘biocredography”= a believable book about someone’s life; “thermoscope”=a device that lets you see the heat given off by an object. ................
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