SporkUK Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 My 11 and 9 year old finished Words by Marcia Henry this week and both requested more on root words and word meaning/history and similar. This took me by surprise so I've been looking around. They both liked seeing words with similar meaning word roots [like script and graph] so I'm trying to find something that teaches similar meaning root words together. The closest I've found so far is Growing Your Vocabulary - Learning from Latin an Greek Roots - but this seems to be quite difficult to get in the UK. I'm looking through teacherspayteachers but as there are over 6000 things under 'root words', I'm hoping someone here can help me narrow things down! Also, my 11 year old is really struggling with homophones and homonyms [and has always struggled with similar sounding words and spelling in general]. I was going to use Spelling Made Easy: The Homonym Way to Better Spelling by Connie Schenkleberg as a summer change of pace from Essential Spellings but Everyday Education which had the ebook seems to have withdrawn it and I've been struggling to find it in the UK other than used books [which as it is a workbook makes me nervous]. Any advice or recommendations for similar would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 All About Homophones from Marie Rippel Ellen McHenry has Excavating English that your kids might like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 I was going to suggest AAH as well--that really helped my kids. Also, here's an article on Teaching Latin Roots with Word Trees that has a listing of resources for teaching more roots at the end. I love etymologies! I have a dictionary that gives the etymology for words, but there's also the Online Etymology Dictionary--fun resource. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea 4 Three Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 This is my new "enthusiasm" of late. :001_smile: I have come across several fantastic resources lately. Nothing that is really a program or curriculum, but great for learning more about word study and doing "structured word inquiry." I really like Marcia Henry's book also. Real Spellers LEX (Linguist Educator eXchange) Word Worksingston Online Mini Matrix Maker Online Entomology Dictionary 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Some free resources: http://www.thephonicspage.org/LangLessons/greeklatinroots.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrousel Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 I'm considering using this off of TPT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Greek-and-Latin-Roots-MEGA-BUNDLE-2340139 Will definitely be purchasing these little posters regardless of what we use for roots, for $3: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Greek-Latin-Roots-Posters-2124054 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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