Greek Latin+Roots+and+Affixes

How does applying and using the meanings of high frequency Greek and Latin derived roots and affixes help me

to understand unknown words?

Activating Strategy: Word Sort• Arrange the following list of words into

categories based on their similarities:

– Automobile - Mistrust– Biology - Noblest– Booklet - Plentiful– Cohesion - Promote– Dysfunction - Slowly– Eject - Trace– Erase - Vocal– Manual

How do readers break words into parts?

Many words can be broken up into three parts. These words often have roots that come from Greek and Latin. Knowing the meaning of commonly used roots and knowing how to break words into parts can help you determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

Root – the word part that contains the core meaning.

Prefix – a word part that appears at the beginning of a word.

Suffix – a word part that appears at the end of a word.

• Roots: – tract = “pull, draw, drag”– mot = “move”– duc, duct = “lead”– port = “carry”– ven, vent = “come”– dict = “speak”– voc, vok = “call”– viv, vit = “life”– sol, helio = “sun”– dom = “house”– terra = “land”– aqua, hydro = “water”

How do readers break words into parts?

-A motor makes things “move.”

-Motion is __________.

-A tractor “pulls” farm equipment.

-We need good traction to ____ a car in snow.

-A duct “leads” heated air from a furnace to the rooms of the house.

-A conductor ______ an orchestra.

-A porter “carries” luggage.

-A portable phone can be ______ around.

– at-, ad- = “to, toward, add to”– de- = “down, off”– dis- = “apart”– con- “with, together”– ex- = “out”– pro- = “forward, ahead”– sub- = “under, below”– un- = “not”– in- = “in”

-Previews of coming attractions “draw” us “to” the theater.

-The ugly building detracted, or ______ ____, from the beauty of the neighborhood.

-Noises in a school hallway are distracting because they ____ our attention ____ from the lesson.

-Muscles contract when they ____ ________ and tighten.

-A dentist extracts a bad tooth by ______ it __

-A protracted war is one that is ____ _______

-When we subtract, we “draw’ the number below” its amount by taking away from it.

Prefixes: Give words direction, negate a word, or intensify a word

– -ology = “study of”

Suffixes: Change the part of speech of a word

Geology is the “study of” the earth.Theology is the _____ __ God.

In your notebook, break up the following words into their word parts by underlining the root and highlighting the prefix and/or suffix.

How do readers break words into parts?

1. Inject 6. Solitaire2. Deject 7. Scribe3. Sophistry 8. Prescription4. Sophistical 9. Logistics5. Desolate 10. Illogical

How do readers break words into parts?

• In small groups, you will receive a bag containing several slips of paper labeled with prefixes, suffixes, and roots.

• Identify as many words as you can by combining affixes and roots, and write them on a sheet of paper to be turned in.

What are some common Greek and Latin derived roots and affixes?

Root Meaning Exampleact do actionaud hear audiencecred believe creditdict speak dictatefidel faith infidelgraph write autographloc place locateman hand manualped foot pedalport carry importsign mark signalspec see inspecttract pull, drag attractvolve roll evolve

What are some common Greek and Latin derived roots and affixes?

Prefix Meaning Examplead- to adaptagro-/agri- soil agricultureamphi- both amphibianan- not anarchyauto- self automobileco- together cooperatede- opposite deactivatedis- opposite disagreefor- not forbidhypo- below hypodermicil- not illegalim- into immediatein- not inaccurateir- not irregularmal- bad malfunctionpro- before prologuepro- forward progressre- again rewritesub- under submergesuper- beyond supersonictrans- across transcendun- not uncertain

What are some common Greek and Latin derived roots and affixes?

Suffix Meaning Example-ade action or process parade-age action or process marriage-ant one who assistant-cle small particle-dom state or quality of boredom-ent one who resident-ful full of careful-ic relating to historic-less without careless-ly resembling scholarly-ment action or process development-ment action or quality of amusement-ment product or result experiment-or one who actor

How do readers use the meanings of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to understand

unknown words in an expository text? • In pairs, read On

Being Seventeen, Bright – and Unable to Read (573), by David Raymond.

• Choose five words from the selection and complete a Frayer Diagram for each word.

Extending ThinkingCompare and contrast the effectiveness of using context clues and applying common Greek and Latin roots in the identification of unknown vocabulary words.

3-2-1 Exit Ticket: From memory, students will list 3 common Greek/Latin derived roots and definitions, 2 common prefixes and definitions, and 1 common Greek/Latin derived suffix and definition.

Summarizing Strategy