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Welcome to my Word Roots worksheet. Check out this excerpt from the training video I did for the New York City Department of Education. So, I try to build their vocabulary in other ways besides just isolating one word at a time. And one of the ways I do that is with our first activity which is Word Roots. If they can remember word roots they'll have a better time when they come across the root in several different words, they'll have a better idea of what the word means. Another way is if you know prefixes and suffixes that can help you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. So, for prefixes and suffixes there's an exercise on prefixes, and exercise on suffixes, and then an exercise putting them together. The third task for reading comprehension that really targets vocabulary is using context clues. Because really the way that many of us learn new words is by hearing them or reading them several times over. Because in a given situation if you don't know the word, you'll get some idea what it might mean from the context, and then if you hear it again, let's say on television oh yeah, now you get kind of a better idea of what that word means, and then a third time and a fourth time in.
So, when you start to really figure out what the word means without ever looking up the definition. So, for using context clues I have the students do exactly that, exposure to unfamiliar words in sentences, where they get some idea, and then the next sentence repeats the word in a new sentence with a little more of the context clues. It also I feel lets students be more willing to take guesses to not be scared of guessing meanings. Thanks for viewing my description of my Word Roots worksheet. If you like what you've seen here, please click and subscribe to my channel. I'm not exactly sure, what that means, but my web guy told me it's a thing!
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