Description
About The Program
Strategic vocabulary instruction through Greek and Latin roots
Vocabulary from Classical Roots® is ideal for students mastering a growing content-area vocabulary in social studies, science, literature, and mathematics – predominantly multisyllabic Greek- and Latin-based words. Strategic instruction helps students learn to unlock the meanings of thousands of words. As students transition from learning to read to reading to learn, they will develop a useful, transferable technique to make sense out of unfamiliar words.
Skills Addressed:
- Greek and Latin roots
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Word origins and etymologies
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Analogies
- Word usage
- Word forms
- Critical thinking
- Dictionary and glossary use
- Critical thinking
- Writing
- Editing sentences
- Homophones
- Multiple-meaning words
- Parts of speech
- Spelling
- Syllables
- Test taking/assessment
