Vocabulary - Academic Language
Analyze & Compare to Determine Meaning
Analyze the roots to determine the meaning of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. (Old example Analyze the roots )
Demonstrating Understanding of Root Words
Visualizing Meanings by Examining Roots
Building a Root Word Glossary
Choose a difficult term in your discipline and enter in the appropriate column in the Root Word Glossary. Identify the prefixes, suffixes and roots and place in the appropriate columns
Identify the meanings of these terms. You may use the Dictionary of Word Roots to accomplish this.
Provide additional examples of the use of each prefix, suffix or root word. You may use OneLook to accomplish this.
Deciphering terms – Taxonomy and classification
Once you know basic root words for a science, you can determine the meanings of new terms. Table 1.2 has a list of animal classifications, many of which you may find unfamiliar or even unpronounceable. Analyze the roots (using table 1.3) and match each phylum, class or order to a likely definition. Do not use a dictionary or glossary, but rather draw conclusions based on an analysis of the root words.
Etymology, Cognates; Foreign Roots
History of the English Language
Geography of adopted words - Develop a map showing the flow of terms into the English language by connecting arrows between the place of origin and London, England, using a Padlet file
Mind Map of adopted words - Create a Mind Map using Coggle.it to show how English borrows words from many languages.
Cognate activity - Understand the similarity between English words and those in other languages