Help your students unlock the power of words with this Greek and Latin Roots Reference Guide — a comprehensive, student-friendly tool that builds vocabulary, strengthens reading comprehension, and supports cross-curricular learning. Perfect for middle school, high school, and test prep classrooms, this guide shows students how to break down words into their meaningful parts.
What’s Inside:
- Categorized Roots with Examples – organized by themes like people & society, thinking & knowing, movement & change, time & order, earth & nature, body & health, senses, emotions, and knowledge.
- Greek Roots – examples include bio, geo, psych, path, chron, scope, phon.
- Latin Roots – examples include dict, vid/vis, mort, aqua, corp, scrib/script.
- Definitions + Word Examples – shows students how roots create meaning (e.g., mort = death → mortal, immortal).
- Student Tip Section – explains how knowing a root can help decode unfamiliar words.
Teacher Directions Included:
Ideas for explicit introduction, modeling, and practice.
Best practices for binder inserts, projection, and classroom posters.
Extension activities: quizzes, exit tickets, cross-curricular connections (ELA, science, social studies).
Why Teachers Love It:
Gives students a quick, at-a-glance reference for decoding vocabulary.
Reinforces instruction in ELA, science, and history simultaneously.
Builds academic word knowledge for essays, exams, and standardized tests.
Versatile: use as a handout, study guide, or poster.
With this Greek and Latin Roots Reference Guide, students gain the tools to tackle complex vocabulary independently — an essential skill for success in reading, writing, and test prep.
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