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Dev's Cypress Swamp Journal: Latin Word Parts

Read a boy's canoe journal from a cypress swamp and use Latin roots and prefixes like aud, vis, port and pre to find word meanings.

Grade 4ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.4.4.b

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10 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 use Latin roots and prefixes as clues to the meaning of words in a text.
Students sort and use new words built from the roots aud, vis and port.

How to use

Go over the word part key first, then read the journal together and stop at each bold word to break it into parts before students answer.

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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Dev's Cypress Swamp Journal: Latin Word Parts

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Use the word part key to help you understand the bold words in Dev's journal.

Word part key
aqua = water
aud = hear
bi = two
dict = say
in = not
ocul = eye
port = carry
pre = before
rupt = break
struct = build
trans = across
vis = see

Dev's Swamp Journal

17:00 a.m. Aunt Rosa and I slid our canoe into the cypress swamp just after sunrise. The water was dark and still, like a giant mirror. Before we pushed off, Aunt Rosa made a prediction. "We will see an alligator before lunch," she said. I was not so sure.

28:30 a.m. Tall cypress trees rose out of the water all around us. Pointy wooden bumps poked up near their trunks. Aunt Rosa called them cypress knees. I lifted my binoculars and spotted a tiny green frog sitting on top of one.

39:15 a.m. We heard a deep, rumbling call from somewhere in the reeds. It was barely audible, but it made the hair on my arms stand up. "Bullfrog," Aunt Rosa whispered. A moment later, a loud splash interrupted our quiet talk. A great blue heron flapped up from the water with a fish in its beak.

410:00 a.m. Five turtles were sunning themselves on a fallen log. Many of the animals in this swamp are aquatic. When our canoe drifted closer, the turtles slid off the log one by one and swam away.

510:45 a.m. Near the bank, we found a big mound of mud and leaves. Aunt Rosa said a mother alligator had constructed it as a nest for her eggs. We stayed far back and kept paddling.

611:30 a.m. Then I saw two bumpy eyes and a long snout floating near the reeds. The rest of the alligator was almost invisible under the dark water. Aunt Rosa's prediction came true after all!

712:15 p.m. We transported the canoe across the muddy parking lot and lifted it onto the truck. My arms are tired, but I can't wait to come back.

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