Creative Teaching Press Language Arts: More Greek and Latin Roots

Teaching vocabulary to improve reading comprehension helps increase your students confidence in understanding and using larger vocabulary words. Over 60% of all English words contain Greek or Latin roots. Use the activities in this resource to help students to: Move beyond simply decoding words to understanding themDissect multisyllabic words into their meaningful partsIncrease their use of larger vocabulary words in oral and written languageImprove reading comprehensionIncrease confidence in their language skillsFeatures 30 new lessons to support students growing vocabulary. The built-in repetition and review will help students overlearn these roots and their meanings so that they become second nature. Contains 144 pages. For grades 4-8.