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Break it Down Greek Root Cards – Digital & Printable

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If your learners are working on reading words with Greek roots, you’ll enjoy using these simple, self-checking Greek root cards. They come formatted for print and digital, with links to Google Slides, Microsoft OneDrive, and Seesaw.

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If you learners are working on reading words with prefixes, these Break it Down Greek Root Cards are a simple way to pack a punch.

You may also like our Break it Down Affix Cards and Break it Down Latin Stem Cards.

 

Let’s Break it Down ~ Greek Root Cards

Many words and/or parts of words in the English language derive from Greek. In order for our learners to read and understand word meanings, teaching Greek roots, especially the more common ones, is imperative.

Greek roots are more versatile in nature than Latin stems. Greek roots can act as stand-alone words, such as meter, scope, and sphere. They can also act as a prefix, “base word,” or suffix in a word. For example, biology is made of two Greek roots: bio and ology or logy, with the ology part acting as a suffix.

Latin stems are a little more predictable in nature than Greek roots. Latin stems tend to only act as the “base word” in most words.

This resource covers around the most common Greek roots including: auto, bio, graph, hydr, geo, meter, logy/ology, phon/ phone, photo, scope, sphere, tele, therm/therma/thermo, and zo/zoo.


These Greek root cards are available in THREE formats, so you can pick the one(s) that work best for you and your learners!

  1. Google Slides – A link in the PDF is provided for 20 self-checking digital cards plus directions on how to assign them to Microsoft OneDrive
  2. Seesaw – A link in the PDF is provided for 20 self-checking digital cards
  3. Printable Cards – 20 Greek root cards {color and blackline}, a printable recording sheet, and printable answer key

 

Break it Down - Greek Root Cards - Printable option available

 

On each Greek Root Card, learners are asked to:

  1. Look at the word.
  2. Examine the word parts.
  3. Break the word down into its word parts -> Greek Root(s) + Other Word Parts, such as prefixes or suffixes
  4. Write a definition of the word
  5. Write the word in a sentence

All digital and printable cards are SELF-CHECKING! In Google Slides and Seesaw, learners can drag a box over to check their answers and read a sample sentence. Just print the answer key for learners to check their work if you’re using the printable cards.

 

>>Click HERE to preview these cards.

 

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