Lessons tagged with "word+origins"

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on using roots to determine the meaning of unknown words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the root in a bold word in a sentence. They note the origin and meaning from a given table and then determine the best meaning of the word based on context clues. In addition to the lesson, there are 11 pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.

This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on recognizing the origins and meanings of frequently used foreign words in English. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences that need a foreign word added from the word bank. Then, they use context clues to figure out which foreign word fits properly into each sentence and they read the sentence aloud using the foreign word. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.