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Mastering Greek and Latin Roots: Comprehensive Lessons for 7th Grade Language Arts

Explore the rich world of language with our 7th-grade Greek and Latin roots lessons. Each lesson provides clear definitions, examples, and relevant applications to enhance vocabulary and comprehension skills. Through 10 engaging lessons, students will learn root words such as "bene" (good), "malus" (bad), and "pedis" (foot), discovering their meanings and uses in words like "beneficial," "malady," and "pedal." These foundational skills will empower students in reading, writing, and critical thinking.

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Mastering Greek and Latin Roots: Comprehensive Lessons for 7th Grade Language Arts

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  1. 7th gradeLanguage Arts Additional spelling words Greek and Latin Root words

  2. Lesson 1 • Achievement Address • Analysis Anonymous • Argument Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  3. Lesson 1 • Root Definition Examples • Ab away from abnormal, absent • Ad to, forward advocate, advance • Amo love amorous, amiable • Audio hear audience, inaudible • Auto self autocrat, automobile

  4. Lesson 2 • Beginning • Business • College • Conscience • Control • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  5. Lesson 2 • Root Definition Examples • Bene good/well beneficial, benefit • Circum around circulate, circumference • Celer swift accelerate • Chronos time chronological • Cresco grow increase, decrease

  6. Lesson 3 • Criticism • Definite • Description • Despise • Doesn’t • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  7. Lesson 3 • Root Definition Examples • Cum with compose, accommodate • Curro run current, cursive, course • Demos people democracy, epidemic • Erro wander, stray error, erratic • Ex from, out of exclaim, exhaust

  8. Lesson 4 • Environment • Excellent • Existence • Grammar • Hypocrisy • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  9. Lesson 4 • Root Definition Examples • Extra outside extravagant, extraordinary • Facio make effect, affect • Fero bring, bear confer, defer • Fragilis breakable fragile, fragment • Finis end confine, finality

  10. Lesson 5 • Immediately • Interpret • Knowledge • Lieutenant • Medieval • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  11. Lesson 5 • Root Definition Examples • Homos same homogenous • Hyper over, beyond hypertension, hyperactive • Hypo under, beneath hypodermic, hypothesis • Jacio throw eject, interject • Judex a judge judge, prejudice

  12. Lesson 6 • Muscle • Muscular • Occasionally • Offense • Particularly • Next slide Greek/Latin Roots

  13. Lesson 6 • Roots Definitions Examples • Juro swear jury, perjury • Makros long macrocosm • Malus bad malady, malice • Manus hand manufacture, manuscript, manicure • Morphe form metamorphosis, amorphosis

  14. Lesson 7 • Persuade • Politician • Prejudice • Probably • Recognize • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  15. Lesson 7 • Roots Definitions Examples • Neos new neophyte • Pan all panorama, panacea • Pedis foot pedal, biped, pedicure • Polis city metropolis • Pro before, for proceed, propose, prodigy

  16. Lesson 8 • Remembrance • Responsibility • Rhyme • Sacrifice • Scholar • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  17. Lesson 8 • Roots Definitions Examples • Pseudos a lie pseudonym • Re back, again react, reply, revise • Scribe write scribble, inscribe • Sentio feel(with senses) sensation, sensual, sentry • Sequor follow subsequent, sequel

  18. Lesson 9 • Shepherd • Sincerely • Sponsor • Succeed • Surprise • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  19. Lesson 9 • Roots Definition Examples • Solvo loosen solution, solvent, dissolve • Specto look at inspect, speculate, perspective • Strictus drawn tight strict, constricted • Sub under subdue, subject, subtract • Super above superficial, supreme, superlative

  20. Lesson 10 • Tendency • Thorough • Truly • Women • Written • Next slide for Greek/Latin Roots

  21. Lesson 10 • Roots Definitions Examples • Syn together synchronize, synthesis • Tendo stretch tension, intense, detention • Teneo hold, keep contain, content, maintain • Trans across transfer, transcontinental • Valeo be strong prevail, valiant

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