What fun! As part of a vocabulary exercise designed for Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida readers create word trees with the trunk representing the root word and the branches representing prefixes that can be added to the root to form additional words.

Concepts

Vocabulary, reading comprehension strategies

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• The strategy may be adapted to any vocabulary study focusing on roots and prefixes

Classroom Considerations

• The 12th in a series of resources designed to accompany a reading of Victor Martinez's novel

Pros

• The resource includes a rationale for the approach, step-by-step directions, and illustrations
• A bingo activity is also included 

Cons

• None