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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Reading Topics a to Z: Root Words, Roots, and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to using word parts to improve vocabulary skills. Includes charts of common Greek and Latin roots as well as common prefixes and suffixes and their meanings. Each of the four charts can be downloaded.
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Stanford University

Standford University: Complex Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource contains relevant information regarding to complex roots that includes formulas and graphs.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Word Roots and Prefixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At this website, there is a large chart that "Contains some of the common roots and prefixes that make up the building blocks of numerous English words." Columns for roots/prefixes, meanings, and examples are included.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Roots and Their Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson introduces common roots words (or base words) and their meanings. It explains that some can stand alone while others require prefixes or suffixes to form words. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
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Jim Loy

Jim Loy: Roots of Unity

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains relevant information regarding to roots of unity and a few examples, including diagrams. Information is helpful and concise.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Word Analysis: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the concept of word analysis. The decoding skills of analyzing morphemes, including looking at prefixes, suffixes, and roots are included.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Vocabulary Tip: Build Associations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This screencast discusses how building associations between words increases vocabulary. It provides several examples on building successful associations using roots, parts of speech, prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms. Real Player is...
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Curated OER

Writing Fix: Question and Answer Books: Plant Stems & Roots

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The front cover of the book Plant Stems & Roots by David M. Schwartz.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Zeros and Their Multiplicities: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson demonstrates how to use factoring to find the zeros of a polynomial function, and explains how to tell if a particular zero occurs more than once. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Zeros and Their Multiplicities." Includes...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Affixes 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on affixes. It defines the term; discusses prefixes including location, examples, and how they affect the root word; discusses suffixes including location, examples, and how they affect the part of speech;...
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Curated OER

Nerve Roots

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the anatomical components of the spinal cord and their function in the nervous system. Includes labeled diagram. Outstanding information and a helpful aid for understanding.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Zeros and Their Multiplicities: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to use factoring to find the zeros of a polynomial function, and explains how to tell if a particular zero occurs more than once. It is 4 of 6 in the series titled "Zeros and Their Multiplicities."
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New York Times

New York Times: The Fortune Cookie: A History

For Students 9th - 10th
Evidence points to fortune cookies originating in Japan, not China as most people assume. Here is a brief video presentation discussing the roots of the fortune cookies and how they became linked to Chinese culture. [1:21]
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: On the March: Women of the Peace Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
American women's peace advocacy has roots in 19th century U.S and European movements.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Timeline of Events

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive timeline tracks the Holocaust from it's roots to the Nuremberg Trials. This interactive timeline is broken down into 5 groups based on dates. Each grouping contains a short summary and multiple primary sources such as...
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Curated OER

There Is a Banyan Tree Which Has Its Roots Upward and Its Branches Down.

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers descriptions and pictures painted by members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), illustrating the story of Arjuna and Krishna.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Suffixes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on suffixes including defining them, explaining how they impact the root word, discussing the advantages of learning them, and providing a partial list of suffixes with the meanings. L.11-12.4b Patterns/changes
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Curated OER

Eqnarray26

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what factoring is and what the roots of a polynomial are separately. It then discusses factoring and roots together.
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Curated OER

Eqnarray42

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what factoring is and what the roots of a polynomial are separately. It then discusses factoring and roots together.
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Curated OER

Displaymath138

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what factoring is and what the roots of a polynomial are separately. It then discusses factoring and roots together.
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Curated OER

Casey Jones Home and Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Site shows a picture of Casey's house which is now a museum. Provides a phone number to the museum for further information.
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Curated OER

Casey Jones Home and Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Site shows a picture of Casey's house which is now a museum. Provides a phone number to the museum for further information.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Idaho: Weippe Prairie

For Students 9th - 10th
Meadow of camas, whose roots were basic food for Nez Perce, where the Lewis and Clark Expedition emerged from Lolo Trail.

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