Curated OER
Centipede or Millipede?
Students discuss millipedes and centipedes in terms of their classification as arthropod. Using a diagram, students categorize and compare and contrast the characteristics of millipedes and centipedes based on their discussion of...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Storybooks and Games
Students explore stories, games and coloring pages on an interactive website. In this pre-reading activity, students have free access to stories, coloring pages and simple games at the Lil' Fingers website.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
Learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes
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.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Root Words, Roots and Affixes
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes
You will learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Utah Education Network
Uen: It's Greek to Me!
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...
Education.com
Education.com: L.4.4.b Worksheets: Use Greek and Latin Affixes and Roots as Clues
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 22 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard L.4.4.B: Use common, grade appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as...
TES Global
Blendspace: Roots & Affixes
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.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Root Word Lessons
This is an index of links to activities using root words. These activities are separated into 3 levels of difficulty. These interactive, vocabulary puzzles and activities use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Cognates (English Iii Reading)
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)
[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...