Greek Roots and Suffixes Superheros/Written Conventions
Grade: 5
Subject: ELA
Topic: Greek Roots and Suffixes Superheros/Written Conventions
Description: Students will brainstorm words with Greek affixes. Students will then create a superhero using a Greek affix.
TEKS: 5.22B Greek Roots, 1A Students are expected to read aloud grade-level stories with fluency and comprehension, 2A determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes. 5RC- Students are expected to:
- establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension;
- ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of text;
- monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions);
- make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding;
- summarize and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts; and
- make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between and across multiple texts of various genres and provide textual evidence.
4 C’s: Creativity, Collaboration, Communication
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Lesson Procedures:
- Student should be introduced to a particular affix and its meaning. Students will create an affix tree using Popplet* thinking of all words that they know that contain this particular greek root or suffix. (*Contact your ITS for assistance with this.)
- Students share their affix tree with partners or groups, collaborating to discuss word meaning and adding new words to their trees. False affixes (those that contain the same word part but do not have the same meaning) are crossed out. Students can use dictionary.com to check their work or look up meanings.
- Students receive chart paper and work in a group to create an affix superhero. If at this point, this is not the first greek or latin that you have introduced, they can combine several to create a superhero. Students need to draw out their hero, give him a name and bio. Who is he, where did he come from, what are his powers. Everything about him should connect to the meaning of the weeks’ affix.
- Students will draw their hero in color on their chart paper or piece of white paper. Next, students need to take a picture using a digital camera or their computer.
- Students will login to Google and create a Google Drawings*. Then, upload their photo. They will add the descriptive text boxes to their image to explain all about this hero. Student can also make a villain! (*The teacher can also distribute a blank Google Drawing to each student in Google Classroom.)
- Student groups come up to present. Teacher logs in on her computer and mirrors it onto the big screen so all the class can see. If you have one-to-one technology, students can pull it up on their devices and students can gallery walk around to learn about each superhero.
Device Type: iPad, Chromebook, Laptop, Samsung Tablet