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5th Grade ELA

Rooting One's way to Meaning

Grade Level:
5
Subject:
Language Arts
Topic:
Students will discover the meanings of some ancient Greek and Latin roots.
Objective:
In this lesson, small groups of students will use the VT think map to assist them in an inquiry based approach to discovering the meanings of some common Latin and Greek roots. Then, each student will then teach a particular root and related vocabulary words to another group of students through a "jigsaw" exercise.
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