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Practice with Prefixes (Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary)

Practice with Prefixes (Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary)

Current price: $34.99
Publication Date: April 1st, 2012
Publisher:
Shell Education
ISBN:
9781425808822
Pages:
240

Description

Help your students expand their vocabularies and deepen word knowledge with Practice with Prefixes. This standards-based resource presents the most frequently encountered Latin and Greek prefixes in a way that is easy to implement and understand. Each lesson provides necessary content explanations, instructional guidelines, and student activities to help learners determine meaning by analyzing word parts. With the key to understanding both everyday and academic vocabulary at their fingertips, all students will be delighted to discover how easy it is to learn the meanings of prefixes.

About the Author

Nancy Padak, Ed.D., is the Principal Investigator for the Ohio Literacy Resource Center and directs the Reading and Writing Center at Kent State University. She has served as editor of The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Literacy Research.

Evangeline Newton, Ph.D., University of Akron, is Professor of Literacy Education and Director of the Center for Literacy. She teaches literacy methods courses and conducts workshops for teachers on word study, comprehension, and guided reading.