Vocabulary Study

We have begun our first root/prefix/suffix study, looking up and determining the meanings of -anti - audi - bio - enni/anni - and -capit/capt. We determined these meanings by doing an investigation.

1. brainstorming words with those roots
2. looking up definitions
3. finding similarities
4. inferring the meaning.

The meaning was reinforced using a Frayer model:

A completed example may look like this:

From time to time throughout the year, students will be asked to complete these investigations. I hope that we will learn some 50+ roots in this way.