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📖 6th Grade · ELAL.6.4bUnit 6: Grammar & vocabulary

Greek and Latin roots

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🎯 Objective: Students use affixes and roots as clues to meaning.

Lesson outline

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

Lesson 2 of 3 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.6.4b

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use pronouns correctly
  • Use context, roots and reference materials to find meaning

✅ 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

✏️ Crossword maker📚 All 6th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Grammar & vocabulary”

  1. Pronoun case and vague pronouns
  2. Greek and Latin roots
  3. Figurative language and connotation

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