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📖 5th Grade · ELAL.5.4bUnit 5: Vocabulary: roots, figurative language & relationships

Greek roots

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🎯 Objective: Students use Greek roots (photo, graph, tele, micro) to find meaning.

Lesson outline

  1. Root trees.
  2. Build words.
  3. Practice.
  4. Exit: three words.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.5.4b

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use Greek and Latin affixes and roots
  • Interpret figurative language
  • Use word relationships

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Greek & Latin roots📚 All 5th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Vocabulary: roots, figurative language & relationships”

  1. Greek roots
  2. Latin roots
  3. Figurative language
  4. Idioms, adages, proverbs
  5. Word relationships

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