Root Words: Tele

A telescope allows you to see things that are

• far away

• small

• up close

• not really there

Define "tele"

• To see

• To connect

• To hear

• Far away

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.RI.5.4

Tele

• Distant

• Power

• Light

• Over

Given this word family, what do you think the root tele means?

• Telephone
• Telescope
• Telepathy

• pull

• from afar

• to make

• place

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CCSS.L.6.4B

What does the root word tele mean in telegraph?

• see, vision
• far, distant
• think
• show

telephone

• to work at home and send work back to the

  office by computer

• an old-fashioned system of sending written

  messages over long distances with wires and

  signals

• a device used to send sounds (such as

  people’s voices) over long distances

• a long tube-shaped device used to see things

  that are far away

• to broadcast something by television

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CCSS.L.7.4A

telegraph

• to work at home and send work back to the

  office by computer

• an old-fashioned system of sending written

  messages over long distances with wires and

  signals

• a device used to send sounds (such as

  people’s voices) over long distances

• a long tube-shaped device used to see things

  that are far away

• to broadcast something by television

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

televise

• to work at home and send work back to the

  office by computer

• an old-fashioned system of sending written

  messages over long distances with wires and

  signals

• a device used to send sounds (such as

  people’s voices) over long distances

• a long tube-shaped device used to see things

  that are far away

• to broadcast something by television

telescope

• to work at home and send work back to the

  office by computer

• an old-fashioned system of sending written

  messages over long distances with wires and

  signals

• a device used to send sounds (such as

  people’s voices) over long distances

• a long tube-shaped device used to see things

  that are far away

• to broadcast something by television

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

telecommute

• to work at home and send work back to the

  office by computer

• an old-fashioned system of sending written

  messages over long distances with wires and

  signals

• a device used to send sounds (such as

  people’s voices) over long distances

• a long tube-shaped device used to see things

  that are far away

• to broadcast something by television