Greek Roots

An astronomer is someone that studies the stars. What instrument, that has the Greek root that means far/distant, does the astronomer need?

• telescope

• telegram

• microscope

• astroscope

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

Autograph has the Greek root "auto". What connection does the word autograph have with the meaning of "auto".

• When someone gives you their authograph they sign a paper

• When someone gives you their autograph they sign it themselves.

• When someone gives you their autograph, it can be worth a lot of money

• When someone gives you their autograph you have to be very careful with it.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

Read the following sentence: I rode my bicycle to the recycling center and almost crashed into a motorcycle. This sentence has three words with the Greek root cycle. What does this root mean?

• stars

• far away

• circle or ring

• self

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

I asked the astronaut for his autograph and was very surprised when he rode off on his unicycle. What are the order of the meaning of these roots?

• star/write/circle

• star/bad/liquid

• star/far/star

• ring/star/wrong

Tags

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

The Greek root tele means "far away/distant." If I wrote down the sentence: Last summer, my brother and I watched a telethon on TV to raise funds for cancer victims. What do you think telethon means?

• a non-stop fundraiser where you call people over the telephone

• a non-stop activity where you look at animals over a telescope

• a non-stop phone call

• a non-stop message that is delivered on horse

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

Matt participated in a triathlon last weekend and he is completely and utterly exhausted. I know he was training for this for about 6 months. What do you think the word triathlon means?

• A meal that consists of eating pizza, burgers, and tacos

• A movie that has three parts to it: beginning, middle, end.

• An essay with three paragraphs

• A race with three parts: running, swimming, and bicycling

Tags

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Read the following sentence: Grandma called me on the telephone to tell me she was going to include in her biography about the time she met an astronaut at the recycling center that had informed her that the next space mission was going to take a biologist to Mars. This sentence has words with 5 out of the 6 Greek roots we covered this week. What root is missing?

• mis

• auto

• bio

• cycle

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B