Grade(s): 7-12+
Pages: 288, perforated, reproducible

Word Roots teaches students the meanings of Latin prefixes, roots, and suffixes commonly used in English. Learning word elements dramatically improves spelling and the ability to decode unfamiliar words. Word Roots will add hundreds of words to your students' vocabulary and greater depth to their thinking and writing.

This is a new version of the award winning Word Roots B1. To improve their award winning series The Critical Thinking Co. created more effective activities to help students learn the meaning and spelling of roots, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in English. Next they added more than 100 new vocabulary words along with activities that focus on using these words in context to help students incorporate each word into their vocabulary and retain the correct spelling. Finally, they added lesson reviews to make sure students retain what is taught in the lessons.

Each lesson has the meanings of prefixes, roots, and suffixes used to form the vocabulary words. The activities following the lessons include:

• Spelling and Defining Words
• Completing the Sentence
• Defining the Word Parts
• Writing Sentences
• (optional) Creative Writing

The books include a pretest/posttest, lesson reviews, answers, and a dictionary of the prefixes, roots, suffixes, and vocabulary words derived from Latin and/or Greek word elements.

Licensed for reproduction for home or single classroom use.

Supporting Flashcards are also available.

Product Reviews:
"An excellent educational tool. I am very pleased with the progress of my students….up to two grade levels for some. Word Roots is entertaining to the student, capturing their attention for extended periods of time. I highly recommend it." -Educator, Las Vegas, NV

"My daughter says Word Roots is challenging and fun. One day when I was trying to figure out a complex word, my daughter said, 'Mom, do you want me to take that word apart for you?' Word Roots is just what she needs to connect with the roots she's already doing." -Mary, Trabuco Canyon, CA

"I've tutored for many years. When I use your materials, children learn to think more logically and to figure things out step by step. This makes a remarkable difference in their ability to read, do math, or learn grammar, vocabulary, and spelling. I'm seeing test scores rapidly improve as students begin to make logical sense out of word problems, history or language arts. I also tutor in Latin. Your Word Roots software is exceptional. For children who have reading or vocabulary problems, it breaks things down into little, digestible pieces. The game of seeing those buildings go up as they learn each root is satisfying and reinforcing for students. It provides them with the continuity and concreteness they need. Great work, you guys!" -Keri Lamle, Professional Tutor, Colorado Springs, CO

"My daughter was selected to attend a prestigious school, and I attribute a good portion of her learning skills to materials such as your Word Roots. We loved the book!" -Bernadette, Springfield, VA

"This program functions exactly as advertised. It gives my kids valuable practice at analyzing the parts of words to determine their meaning." -Elizabeth, Berea, KY

"The variety of activities to reinforce new concepts is excellent. It keeps my children's attention for much longer than workbooks and they get immediate feedback." -Chris, Sugar Land, TX

"Good for spelling, vocabulary recognition and deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words by the meaning of the roots." -Marie, Bethel, VA

"Helps my students learn and remember prefixes, roots, and suffixes while having fun with the lesson. Has also helped with pronunciations and comprehension of what they read." -Brenda, Riverside, CA

"Having taught thousands of students how to prepare and ace the SAT and PSAT tests, I know curriculum like Critical Thinking is an essential for every student who wants to achieve success." -Jean Burk, collegeprepgenius.com

Awards:

• Mensa Recommended Materials for the Gifted
• Practical Homeschooling Magazine Reader Award
• Informal Education Products Product of the Year
• Learning® Magazine Recommended Resource for Successful Teaching