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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: It's Greek to Me!

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
This instructional activity engages students in vocabulary-building strategies related to Greek and Latin roots. Students will be given charts with Greek and Latin roots. Students will practice combining different roots to form...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Greek and Latin Roots Introduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
During this mini-unit, students will learn common Greek and Latin roots. Several supplementary resources are provided for students' study beyond the lessons.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Word Roots and Prefixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At this website, there is a large chart that "Contains some of the common roots and prefixes that make up the building blocks of numerous English words." Columns for roots/prefixes, meanings, and examples are included.
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Activity
Education Development Center

Tv411: Tune in to Learning: More Roots and Their Families

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Part 2 of a series of interactive exercises concerning word roots and vocabulary skills. Site initially explains vocabulary and word roots, then allows students to complete interactive exercises.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Root Words, Roots and Affixes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Familiarity with Greek and Latin roots, as well as prefixes and suffixes, can help students understand the meaning of new words. This article includes many of the most common examples.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: 14 Prefixes in Word Puzzles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This page offers links to 112 vocabulary words from these 14 prefix word game puzzles (eight words for each prefix). Select the prefix; links are: AB - AD - BE - COM - DE - DIS - EN - EX - IN - PRE - PRO - RE - SUB - UN. Then select the...
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Other

Vocabulary Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This vocabulary workshop will be helpful to anyone interested in brushing up on their skills. This site features a comprehensive look at root words, prefixes, suffixes and more.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
You will learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Roots & Prefixes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Tests knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and prefixes, using matching, concentration, and word search formats.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Greek & Latin Roots Skills

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
In this matching game, students match Greek and Latin roots with their meanings.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Greek & Latin Roots Skills

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Test your knowledge on Greek & Latin Roots by using "Matching, Flashcards, Concentration or Word Search."
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TES Global

Blendspace: Roots & Affixes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes fifteen links to images, videos, online games, websites, lists and more that teach prefixes, Greek and Latin rooms, and suffixes.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: That's Greek

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Did you know that at least half of the words in the English language are derived from Greek and Latin roots? Students use these roots to grasp meaning of words before looking them up in the dictionary....
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will be working with literature which is centered on the themes of past, present and future. You will experience several different literary perceptions of the past and the future by reading ancient...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson. You will be introduced to a number of common affixes and roots; play games to practice matching affixes to their meanings; read a passage and use your...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: English 4; Loyalty and Betrayal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Iii Reading)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
In this lesson you'll learn about different types of cognates, words that sound or look alike from one language to the next. You'll learn how leveraging cognate knowledge helps you figure out unfamiliar words in English. When you combine...
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Act Test Prep

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Five separate lesson plans provide 60 ACT words. Latin and Greek roots facilitate mastery of unfamiliar words. The ACT and other standardized tests for college entrance use similar words in ACT test prep exams. The word puzzles are...
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Study Guide
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Gre Test Prep

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Features GRE test prep and GRE practice tests. Right now one of 12 separate lesson plans provide 12 ACT words (goal is 144 words) in a lesson plan of 12 words each. Latin and Greek roots facilitate mastery of unfamiliar words. The GRE...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Weather Watchers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students are introduced to some essential meteorology concepts so they more fully understand the impact of meteorological activity on air pollution control and prevention. First, they develop an understanding of the magnitude and...
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Interactive
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Greek Mythology: All 7 Word Puzzles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a MYTHOLOGY word list (56 words) in seven word puzzles. To solve the mythology word puzzles use the Latin root or Latin word part, the vocabulary definition, part of speech and the Greek Mythology vocabulary word list....
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Article
University of California

Ucmp: Name a Dinosaur Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This article shows how scientists put together the scientific names of dinosaurs using Greek and Latin roots.