This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the word root retro. It’s of Latin origin and means, as you might have already guessed, “back,” “backward,” and “behind.” The commonly used English words retrofit, retrograde, retroactive, and retrospect grow from this root.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the adjective vintage. This scaffolded worksheet, replete with cognates from the Romance languages, is the principal work of this lesson.
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