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Growing Your Vocabulary

Help your 4th–6th graders build strong vocabulary skills by exploring Latin and Greek roots.

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Help your 4th–6th graders build strong vocabulary skills by exploring Latin and Greek roots.

Grow vocabulary skills from the ground up.

Set your 4th, 5th, and 6th graders on the path to language mastery with the best program to improve vocabulary for upper elementary students—Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots.

This series organizes vocabulary words by Latin and Greek roots with similar meanings and explains how they’re used to make words. Once your students understand the basics of word construction, they’ll be prepared to tackle tougher words.

Each chapter is packed with exercises that help students use vocabulary in context, infer meaning from word roots, and define unfamiliar words with confidence.

The Teacher’s Edition for each level of the program lays out a five-day lesson plan for each chapter and gives you advice on helping English language learners and students working below grade level.

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Find the Growing Your Vocabulary package that's right for you!

Class Set & Student Edition - $329.99 per Class Set / $10.99 per Student Edition

Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots - Level 4

Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots - Level 4

4th Grade

Class Set Student Edition
Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots - Level 5

Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots - Level 5

5th Grade

Class Set Student Edition
Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots - Level 6

Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots - Level 6

6th Grade

Class Set Student Edition

Introduce Dozens of Word Roots

  • Engaging mnemonic cartoons and fascinating word notes make learning fun and unforgettable.
  • Matching exercises reinforce word definitions through practice.
  • Fill-in-the-blank activities build understanding of words in context.
  • Multiple-choice questions get students to think about how the words work.
  • Open-ended questions help students relate the words to their own lives.
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Practice New Words in Varied Contexts

  • Sentence completion questions help students showcase their vocabulary skills.
  • Paragraph and dialogue completion activities encourage creativity.
  • Word building activities let students play with roots and affixes.
  • Crosswords and word searches are always popular with students.
  • A variety of writing assignments give students hands-on practice using new words.

Growing Your Vocabulary Complete Sets

Growing Your Vocabulary Complete Sets

Creating a year-long unit to teach roots, prefixes, and suffixes in the upper elementary classroom has never been simpler! The Growing Your Vocabulary Complete Set includes:

  • 30 Student Workbooks
  • 1 Teacher's Edition
  • 1 Test Pack
  • Introduction Powerpoint Presentations (On CD)
Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6

“This book helps students expand their vocabulary. There are just
enough words per chapter to challenge but not overwhelm the students. 
The activities and exercises engage the students so this is not just
rote memory of new terms, but rather learning new words 
and incorporating them into students' personal usage.”

M. Synder

Supplementary Growing Your Vocabulary Resources

Introduction Presentations

Show your students the words they’ll encounter in Growing Your Vocabulary with ready-to-use Introduction PowerPoints.

 

Introduction - Level 4 Introduction - Level 4 (Downloadable) Introduction - Level 5 Introduction - Level 5 (Downloadable) Introduction - Level 6 Introduction - Level 6 (Downloadable)

VocabularyRoots.com

This free and easy-to-use site is loaded with review material and practice activities for this program.

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Teacher’s Editions and Test Packs

If you're a teacher or school and you'd like to order a Teacher's Edition or Test Pack for any level of Growing Your Vocabulary, you can do so by phone at 800-932-4593.

Please note that Teacher’s Editions and Test Packs can only be shipped to school addresses. We're unable to ship any products with answer keys to home addresses.

Roots-Based Vocabulary Study for Grades 7-12

Strong writers, advanced readers, and successful students all share two key skills: a rich vocabulary and the ability to decode new words quickly. Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots equips students with the tools to develop both.

Grounded in research-based strategies, this comprehensive program helps middle and high school students discover how thousands of words connect through common Latin and Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

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