Root Words

what is written down as someone says it

• dictionary
• dictation
• dictum
• edict

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

to say what will happen before  it occurs

• predict
• edict
• verdict 
• dictum

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.L.3.4B

What word names the type of book that was written about a person's life but was written by a different person than the subject of the book?

• autobiography
• biography
• photography
• cartography

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

What word names what someone has written when he or she signed his or her own name on something?

• phonograph
• autograph
• biography
• homograph

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.4B

What word names the hobby or study of how light records an image using a camera?

• photography
• autobiography
• bibliography
• cartography

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

heard or able to be heard

• audible
• audience
  audience
• audio
  audio
• audition
  audition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4B

a group of people who gather together to listen to or watch something; the people who watch, read, or listen to something

• audible
• audience
• audio
• audition

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the word nonfiction mean?

• true
• funny
• not true
• not funny

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.6.4C

The counterfeiting is illegal. The prefix il means - 

• with
• wrong
• not
• under

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4B

She was jabbering about nonsense that we couldn't understand. What is the meaning of nonsense? 

• Speaking clearly
• not making any sense
• telling everyone 
• not speaking loudly 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D