Root Out the Meaning of Words (continued)
Topics: Fifth Grade, Reading, Writing
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Root
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Definition
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Examples
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Hydra |
Water
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Hydration, hydrofoil
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Therm |
Heat
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Thermometer, thermostat
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Graph
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Write
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Graphics, biography
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Dict
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Say
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Dictionary, dictation
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Geo
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Earth
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Geology, geography
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Path
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Feeling
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Apathy, sympathy
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Vit
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Life
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Vitamin, vitalize
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Alicia Danyali, BS Elementary Education, taught primary-level students for four years at the International School of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The last four years of her teaching career, she taught at the Washington International School in Washington, D.C. She recently completed writing a series of children's picture books and is a mother of one young son.
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Comments from readers
It was a long activity, and they have to be reviewed often.
My son thinks it too many words to remember, but he now understands what root words mean.