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Frustrating, isn't it? Just think up a word, calculate its value, and determine that it does NOT equal $1. After several attempts, you lose interest and turn to some other endeavor.
- Allowing your charges to use calculators will hone their proficiency with those tools.
- Children will quickly determine whether their word is greater than or less than $1 in value.
- Astute learners will recognize that common prefixes and suffixes have a specific value. They can quickly compute the change in a word's value by adding or subtracting that value. Some of my students even created an anchor chart for quick reference.
- Some learners will employ multiplication when they recognize that a possible word uses a letter multiple times.
- Answers should match the clues in tense, singular/plural, and parts of speech.
- Base words, prefixes, and suffixes will quickly seize the focus of the word sleuths.
- Some clues offer a hint; the answer is a compound word.
- dictionary
- thesaurus
- internet resources
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