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Rebecca Mann is currently enjoying semi-retirement as a part time instructor at Hope College and the University of Connecticut. Previously she served as an Associate Professor in Gifted and Talented as well as Special Education at Purdue University. Her desire to earn her doctorate at the University of Connecticut stemmed from her 17 years as a classroom and gifted resource teacher in Colorado and New Hampshire. She has been honored for her work by Purdue University, the National Association for Gifted Children and the state of New Hampshire.
Carolyn Freeman recently retired after spending 42 years in public education at both the classroom and district levels for School City of Mishawaka in Indiana. She also spent a number of years teaching undergraduates at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN, as well as graduate students at Indiana University South Bend. Carolyn spent over fifteen years in the curriculum area with a focus on high ability programs and assessment. She has presented and facilitated numerous workshops and convention sessions ranging in topics from educational technology to high ability education to assessment analysis, to name a few.
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Explore Greek & Latin Roots Through Word Windows Lesson Plan Bundle
This bundle contains five sequential, detailed lesson plans that provide everything you need to teach the strategy and process for using Word Windows as a powerful tool to tackle unfamiliar words in order to vastly improve reading and listening comprehension. Lesson Plan 1: Introducing Word Windows (included in the free introductory packet) This first lesson in the series introduces students to the concept and structure of Word Windows. Students will quickly see that a single Greek or Latin r
2nd - 8th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
CCSS
RF.2.3d
, RF.3.3a
, RF.3.3b
+15
SCHOOL LICENSE My Word Is...Who Has My Root?
This school license is priced for up to 30 teachers. My Word Is.../Who Has My Root? is an engaging vocabulary game that gives the entire class or small groups practice in identifying the roots of words, as well as reviewing the meanings of 50 common Greek and Latin roots. This version of the popular I Have/Who Has game makes learning Greek and Latin roots fun! Included in this set are 50 game cards and six blank cards. These PowerPoint slides are all editable for your convenience.
3rd - 12th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
My Word Is...Who Has My Root?
My Word Is.../Who Has My Root? is an engaging vocabulary game that gives the entire class or small groups practice in identifying the roots of words, as well as reviewing the meanings of 50 common Greek and Latin roots. This version of the popular I Have/Who Has game makes learning Greek and Latin roots fun! Included in this set are 50 game cards and six blank cards. These PowerPoint slides are all editable for your convenience.
3rd - 12th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
Exploring Greek & Latin Roots Through Word Windows Lesson 5: Explore That Word
The final lesson pulls everything together as students begin by unlocking the meaning of an unfamiliar word and move on to discover many other words that share the same root and have related meanings. The activities in this lesson lead students through the steps of conducting a thorough word exploration using Word Windows, word sums, and a variety of print and digital reference materials. Following this lesson students will have the necessary tools and skills to use Greek and Latin roots, prefix
2nd - 8th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
CCSS
RF.2.3d
, RF.3.3a
, RF.3.3b
+9
Exploring Greek & Latin Roots Through Word Windows Lesson 4: Exploration Tools
This fourth lesson focuses on some of the online resources that will be useful and appropriate for students to use in their word explorations. Using a jigsaw learning strategy, students become familiar with six websites that provide information about etymology and root families. These online tools will prove invaluable when students begin in-depth explorations of different Greek and Latin root families. This lesson includes student handouts, a completed sample chart, and Words to Explore bookma
2nd - 8th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.3.4d
, L.4.4c
, L.5.4c
Exploring Greek & Latin Roots with Word Windows Lesson 3: It All Adds Up!
The third lesson in the series introduces students to word sums which is a tool used to construct and deconstruct a word in order to understand the meaning of a word. When using this process students explore word structure, meanings, and relationships among words having a common root. Included in this lesson are whole class and individual activities, two student handouts with answer keys, a Prefixes to Know bookmark, and a Suffixes to Know bookmark. This lesson is one of five lessons that are
2nd - 8th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
CCSS
RF.2.3d
, RF.3.3a
, RF.3.3b
+6
Exploring Greek & Latin Roots Through Word Windows Lesson 2: Power of Affixes
This second lesson in the series is a four-part lesson that can be completed in one intensive session or can easily be separated into different activities on different days. Included in this lesson are whole class and individual activities, three student handouts along with answer keys, a Prefixes to Know bookmark, and a Suffixes to Know bookmark. The emphasis on the activities in this lesson is on determining word meaning when affixes are added to roots. This lesson is one of five lessons tha
3rd - 8th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
CCSS
RF.2.3d
, RF.3.3a
, RF.3.3b
+6
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Rebecca Mann is currently enjoying semi-retirement as a part time instructor at Hope College and the University of Connecticut. Previously she served as an Associate Professor in Gifted and Talented as well as Special Education at Purdue University. Her desire to earn her doctorate at the University of Connecticut stemmed from her 17 years as a classroom and gifted resource teacher in Colorado and New Hampshire. She has been honored for her work by Purdue University, the National Association for Gifted Children and the state of New Hampshire.
Carolyn Freeman recently retired after spending 42 years in public education at both the classroom and district levels for School City of Mishawaka in Indiana. She also spent a number of years teaching undergraduates at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN, as well as graduate students at Indiana University South Bend. Carolyn spent over fifteen years in the curriculum area with a focus on high ability programs and assessment. She has presented and facilitated numerous workshops and convention sessions ranging in topics from educational technology to high ability education to assessment analysis, to name a few.
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Growth Mindset oriented,
Inquiry-based instruction,
Conceptual learning
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