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Root Words in Nana's Attic

Grade 4 Greek and Latin roots practice: read a story about old treasures in an attic and use roots like tele, graph, and photo to find word meanings.

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Aligned toL.4.4.b

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1 Common Core standard
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12 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students match common Greek and Latin roots, such as tele, photo, and port, to their meanings.
Students use the meanings of roots to figure out what a new word means.
Students sort words by the Greek root they share.

How to use

Read the story together and list each root and its meaning on the board. Then have students use the list and the root key to answer the questions on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.4.4.b

Use common grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to word meaning, such as telegraph, photograph, and autograph.

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Root Words in Nana's Attic

Use Greek and Latin roots such as tele, graph, and photo to figure out what words mean.

Read the story

Read the story. Notice the word parts that Kofi and Nana Ama talk about.

Treasures in the Attic

1On a chilly Saturday morning, Kofi climbed the narrow stairs to his grandmother's attic. Nana Ama wanted to sort through her old boxes, and she had asked Kofi to help. "Some of these things are older than your parents," she said as she lifted the first dusty lid.

2The first box held a thick album of black-and-white photographs. "Did you know that photograph is built from two old Greek word parts?" Nana Ama asked. "Photo means light, and graph means write or draw. A camera uses light to make a picture." Kofi studied a picture of a girl in a striped dress. "So a photograph is a picture made with light," he said.

3Under the album was a small book with a faded blue cover. Its pages were filled with names written in many different styles. "This is my autograph book," Nana Ama explained. "Auto means self. My friends each signed their own names in it, so every name is an autograph." Kofi traced a curly signature with one finger.

4Next, Kofi pulled out a long brass tube with a glass lens at each end. He already knew this word from science class. "Tele means far, and scope means see," he said. "A telescope helps you see things that are far away, like the craters on the moon!" Nana Ama nodded proudly.

5The next box held a small radio with a leather handle. "That was my portable radio," Nana Ama said. "Port means carry. I took it to the park every summer so I could listen to music under the trees." Kofi picked it up by the handle. It was light enough to carry with one hand.

6Last of all, Kofi found a thin glass tube with a red line inside and numbers along its side. He read the word printed on the back: thermometer. "Therm means heat, and meter means measure," he said slowly. "So a thermometer measures how hot or cold something is." Nana Ama laughed and hugged him. "You are a real word detective," she said.

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