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Get Back to Your Roots!

Get Back to Your Roots!. Intentional Word Study with Greek and Latin Roots. Rationale. English language has 1,200,000 – 2,000,000 words! Estimated that technology is contributing 20,000 new words a year 90% of English words with more than 1 syllable are Latin based

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Get Back to Your Roots!

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  1. Get Back to Your Roots! Intentional Word Study with Greek and Latin Roots

  2. Rationale • English language has 1,200,000 – 2,000,000 words! • Estimated that technology is contributing 20,000 new words a year • 90% of English words with more than 1 syllable are Latin based • Most of remaining 10% are Greek based • Single root can help us understand 5-20 related English words

  3. Kinds of Roots • Base root words • Affixes • Prefixes • Suffixes

  4. Roots affixes bases prefixes suffixes

  5. Parallel Latin and Greek RootsParallel Latin & Greek bases Definition water foot, feet earth Latin aqua- ped- terr- Greek hydro – pod – geo -

  6. Broadening the Cognate Approach English Spanish Inovador Innovative nov Nuevo Nueva Novice Novelty Renovate

  7. Base Root • “vis/vid” examples as base roots – vis/vidare not words by themselves, but they are roots that mean “see”. • Experience the Consensus Board!

  8. Some examples… • A visionary sees ahead to how the project could unfold. • A visor protects your eyes from the sun. • The vivid colors were so bright, we could see them clearly from far away. • Readers with a good imagination visualize the action or setting of the story. • Because it was so foggy, the visibility was very poor. • It is so fun to watch YouTube videosof the screaming goats! • The girl felt invisible as she started her first day at the new high school.

  9. Prefixes • Prefixes – give direction, negate, or intensify • Most English prefixes derived from Latin (about 25) • The four most frequent prefixes account for 97 percent of prefixed words in printed school English… • dis-, re-, un-, & in-, im-, il-, ir-

  10. What do you think these words mean? Pop Quiz!!!!! Create a four chart graphic organizer

  11. Check your work!

  12. Parallel Latin and Greek RootsParallel Latin and Greek prefixes Latin contra-, contro-, circu-, circum- multi- super-, sur- sub- Greek anti – peri – poly – hyper – hypo - Definition against around many over under, below

  13. Directional Prefixes • Most of the prefixes students encounter in school texts are directional in nature. • Examples: • at-, ad- = to, toward, add to • de - = down, off • dis - = apart, in different directions • con- = with, together • re - = again

  14. Suffixes • Least important component in terms of understanding a word’s meaning • Usually used to indicate a part of speech • Only a few suffixes merit intensive scrutiny • - ology = “study of” • -er = “more” • -est = “most” • -ful = “full of” • -less = “without, lacking” • -able, -ible = “can, able to”

  15. Vocabulary list Greek/Latin Root Meaning Modern Word aequus equal equal, equation canto sing chant, cantor credo believe credible, incredulous fundo, fusum pour, thing poured effusive, transfusion locus a place local, dislocate nego deny negate per through perceive, persist, persevere possum be able possible, potent satis enough satisfy spiritus breath inspire, spirit verbum word verbal

  16. Independent Practice • For each of the vocabulary words you are to create a word web like the one seen below. (Meaning) Believe (Other words) Credence Incredible Creed (Root Word) Credo (Sentence) I doubt his credibility because he lies. (Modern Word) Credibility

  17. L.2 Activity • Construct • Construction • Obstruct • Deconstruct • Infrastructure • Reconstruct (Latin base stru, struct; prefixes con-, de-, infra-, ob-, re-, )

  18. Vocabulary list L.2 GREEK/LATIN MEANING MODERN WORDS 1. ago, acta do, things done agent, enact, transact 2. Caput head captain, decapitate 3. culpa blame culpable, culprit 4. Genus kind, origin generic, congenital 5. loquor speak eloquent, loquacious 6. nihil nothing nihilism, annihilate 7. phobos [g] fear phobia, claustrophobia 8. pugno to fight impugn, pugnacious 9. scio know science, conscious 10. totus whole totalitarianism 11. verto turn avert, convert, anniversary

  19. Word Root: Suffix: Prefix: Prefix Definition Root Definition Suffix Definition Other words with this prefix Other words with this root Other words with this suffix

  20. Activity 3 Look at the following subject headings. Add more, if you wish. Look at the list of Greek and Latin words, below, and assign them to the subject they go with. For example, “geometry” would be under the math heading. Some words may fit two topics. Addition Adjective Alias Allegation Altar Antonym Arthritis Assault Biography Calculus Cerebral Chant Chromatic Colonies Crime Culpable Custody Democracy Despot Divorce Fungus Geography Geometry Holocaust Homicide Homonym Incarcerate Judiciary Jugular Larva Legislature Metaphor Microscope Militant Minister Monarchy Narrative Nasal Neuropathy Opera Optician Organ Orthodontist Paragraph Penal Photosynthesis Political Politics Pope Pragmatist Primeval Primitive Prologue Pronoun Psychosis Pulmonary Radius Song Species Subcutaneous Subtraction Testify Theology Theorem Totalitarian Vaccinate Verb

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