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Tomasz at the Mapmaker's Table: Greek and Latin Roots

Read a story about a boy helping his aunt draw a park map, then use Greek and Latin roots such as terra, aqua, scrib and peri to find word meanings.

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Aligned toL.4.4.b

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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

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What students practice

Students use Greek and Latin roots such as terra, aqua and scrib as clues to the meaning of words.
Students use the word parts peri, meter, tri and scope to figure out the meaning of new words.

How to use

Read the story together and list each root on the board with its meaning. Then let students answer the questions on their own and share how a root helped them.

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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Tomasz at the Mapmaker's Table: Greek and Latin Roots

Use word parts like terra, aqua, scrib and peri to figure out what words mean.

Read the story

The Mapmaker's Table

1Every Saturday, Tomasz visits his aunt Mireille, who makes maps for a living. Her studio sits above a hardware store, and her long wooden table is always covered with paper, rulers and colored pencils. "A mapmaker is part artist and part scientist," she likes to say.

2This week, Aunt Mireille was drawing a trail map for a state park. She showed Tomasz a photo of the park taken from high above. "First, I study the terrain," she explained. "The root terra means land, so the terrain is the shape of the land: its hills, valleys and flat fields." She pointed to wavy brown lines on her sketch. "These lines show how high each hill rises."

3Next, she unrolled an old map of the same park. Along the bottom edge, someone had written an inscription in tiny, careful letters. Tomasz squinted at it through a magnifying glass. The words were a short note from the mapmaker who had drawn the park long ago. "Scrib and script mean write," Aunt Mireille said. "An inscription is writing that someone puts on something."

4Then it was time to color the water. "Which places get blue?" Tomasz asked. "Anything aquatic," his aunt answered. "Aqua means water. The marsh, the creek and the lake all count." Tomasz carefully colored the creek a deep blue.

5For the last step, Aunt Mireille rolled a tiny measuring wheel along the loop trail that circles the lake. "The perimeter of the lake is about three miles," she said. "Peri means around, and meter means measure." By the window, a camera stood on a tripod, ready to photograph the finished map.

6Before Tomasz left, Aunt Mireille gave him a blank notebook. "Use it to describe your own street," she said. "Then draw your very first map."

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