Make learning Latin roots a game! After you have introduced the roots fin, sed, and fer, learners can use this word search to build their vocabulary. (Within the word search are words containing these roots.) You can further the activity...

Secondary etymologists assign synonyms and antonyms to six English words based on the Latin roots fin, sed, and fer. MyVocabulary.com ranks this as beginner-level, but the work is challenging. A 24-item word bank provides two acceptable...

Challenge your advanced learners with this interactive chart. Your scholars take a list of vocabulary words (composed of synonyms and antonyms) and correctly identify the word it corresponds with.

How many words can you find? Use this word search towards the end of the unit to reinforce the new vocabulary words. Consider making it a game and timing it to see who can locate the words first.

An above-average vocabulary test: given a vocabulary word in the context of a sentence, pupils must decide, using their knowledge of the word's meaning along with context clues, if the word is used correctly or not. This worksheet...

Words derived from the Latin roots spect, sta, and vert comprise this interactive online quiz. Choose the right word from the beginning-level list on MyVocabulary.com to complete each of 12 sentences. Spelling inaccuracies count as wrong...

In this definitions worksheet, students read ten words in a column and match them with the letter of the word or words from another column that tell the meaning.

Try to match the vocabulary word with the definition provided. Vocabulary words include: abjure, discriminate, allegation, perjury, unjustly, secrete, legacy, certify, recrimination, etc. All vocabulary words are based on Latin roots....

An interactive matching exercise from MyVocabulary.com, this resource highlights 12 advanced-level words containing the Latin roots nat, tract, and sequ. Definitions nicely distinguish among closely related words: nascent, natal, innate,...

Your etymologists match intermediate-level words containing Latin roots nat, tract, and sequ/secu with their definitions. Part of a set of exercises and word lists containing these roots on MyVocabulary.com. Useful for rigorous review...

Readers of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third in J. K. Rowling's series about the young wizard, complete a magic square using words drawn from chapters six and seven of the novel.

Celebrate Opposite Day by using a Visual Thesaurus to match words to their antonyms. They match a list of vocabulary words to their antonym counterparts using the Visual Thesaurus, and then they play Antonym Bingo with the words from...

Mix up your writing lessons by having kids look at recent newspaper articles instead of their own work. They work in pairs and rewrite sports news articles using synonyms and antonyms for a set number of words. Then they share their work...

Incorporate 21st century graphic design skills into an advanced line and design activity instructional activity. 4-H'ers will have a blast using a computer graphics program to re-create an image, unscrambling design terms and matching...

Are you rooting for your high schoolers to learn about rational exponents? In the third installment of a 35-part module, pupils first learn the meaning of 2^(1/n) by estimating values on the graph of y = 2^x and by using algebraic...

A fabulous set of examples and problems that introduce basic trigonometry concepts, this packet is set apart by the care it takes to integrate both radians and degrees into the material. After defining radians, the author demonstrates...

In this vocabulary words worksheet, students match words to definitions by cutting out the words and definitions. Students complete 10 matches total.

Vocabulary really adds up with magic squares! Using words from Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, kids line up words and definitions to come up with the same sum across and down the square.

As Flora from Flora and Ulysses drowns in her misery, she discovers a squirrel with bigger problems than her own. She saves him from the vacuum cleaner and finds out that his brush with death gave him superpowers. Scholars match...

Knowing root words can expand our vocabulary dramatically. Use this worksheet to discuss auto and words in which it commonly appears. Two short exercises are provided here. In the first, learners match words containing the target root...

Identifying root words and their prefixes and suffixes develops a reader's vocabulary. The focus of this quick practice opportunity is the root word derm. Prefixes and suffixes are identified, and then your charges complete two short...

Middle schoolers learn about words that have more than one meaning. They each create a PowerPoint presentation that has a word with multiple meanings at the top, then each of its definitions in the main body of the slide. They insert...

Ten pages offer useful information and five activities designed to reinforce the concept of root words. Scholars make a root word booklet, partake in a matching activity that challenges them to match root words to their...

Focus on the Latin roots struct and tract with this PowerPoint, boasting plenty of practice opportunities. To help develop a definition of each root, viewers match a list of words to their pictures. Then, they compare those words to a...