Ok, it’s pouring rain on a Friday morning in late December, and it’s forty-two degrees at 4:49 in the morning.
Here is a worksheet on the Greek roots kine, kinet, and kinemat. They mean motion and division (think kinetic).
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In my classroom, we recently completed a vocabulary building exercise using the Greek word roots anthro– and anthropo- (they mean man and human) as a starting point. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on anthropomorphism to deepen understanding of this particular concept if anyone is interested.
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This worksheet on the Latin word root cent will help students learn and apply some key words in English, I think. It means, your students will quickly infer (I hope) hundred. This is a very productive root that students really must know.
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This week’s Text is a worksheet on the Greek root hyper and another on the Greek roots hyp and hypo. You will perceive phonetically that these roots are two sides of a coin, and indeed they are: hyper means above, excessive, beyond, and over; conversely, hypo means under, below, and less. If you’ve dealt with thyroid issues in your life, you surely know what these roots mean. So aspiring health care professionals, nota bene!
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If you have students looking at careers in health care, than this worksheet on the Greek root itis is de rigueur. As you have probably gathered–especially if you suffer from arthritis—itis means inflammation. This is a very productive root in English, needless to say.
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If you can use it, here is a worksheet on the Greek roots ep- and epi-. This one is complicated and requires a bit of interpretation, but the basic meanings of these two roots is on, upon, outside, over, among, at, after, and to. As you’ll see from the worksheet itself, this root forms the basis of many commonly used English words like epicenter, epilogue and epidemic; you’ll also find it in epilepsy and episode. This is one of the most difficult roots to connect to students’ own experience and to find the connecting tissue between these words. I don’t use this much, particularly not with struggling and emergent readers.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Here’s a worksheet on the Greek word root hetero. It means, of course, different and other. The adjective heterogenous, used fairly regularly in certain domains of educated discourse, springs from this root, as to a number of English words, as the document will show you and your students.
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Day four of a new job today. Here is a worksheet on the Greek root geo. It means, as your students probably won’t take long to figure out, earth. This is another of those very productive roots in English, and it shows up in words used across the common domain in the high school curriculum, particularly in the physical sciences.
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One last thing this afternoon, to wit a worksheet on the Greek roots gnos, gnom, and gnomon. They mean knowledge, and they show up in words like diagnosis and prognosis, which makes this another one of those roots to produce a lot of words in the health professions.
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This year, for the first time, I am teaching English Language Arts to a group of high school seniors. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it has been one hell of a good time. I have all but no experience teaching upperclassmen, as my practice tends to focus on building academic literacy and skills in freshmen so that they may make it to the senior class.
At my school, the school I am incidentally four working days from departing, the Class of 2019 shows great promise. Three years ago these children arrived, and now have become extraordinary young adults, ready to go forth and contribute to the dignity and freedom of humanity.
The two classes I teach have assented to word root worksheets on Friday, which has been a routine of my classroom practice for several years. This morning I post this master list of Greek and Latin Word roots so that it is easily searchable for this group of kids–or anyone else that wants or needs it.
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