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

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

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

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

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

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