Download - Building a School-wide Root Foundation
Building a School-wide Root Foundation
Susan Burkett, Brooke Point High SchoolKristen Flath, Stafford High SchoolPam Smith, North Stafford High School
Then and Now
1950? 25,000 words
Late 1990s? 10,000 words
Printed Text Scientific article abstracts Newspapers Popular magazines Adult books Comic books Children’s books Preschool books
Rank ofMedian Word
4,3891,6901,3991,058 867 627 578
Rare WordsPer 1000
128.0 68.3 65.7 52.7 53.5 30.9 16.3
Television Texts Popular prime-time adult shows Popular prime-time children’s shows Cartoon shows Mr. Rogers & Sesame Street
490 543 598 413
22.7 20.2 30.8 2.0
Adult Speech Expert witness testimony College graduates to friends, spouses
1,008 496
28.417.3
Hayes and Ahrens, 1988.
Virginia SOL Grades 4-12 Reading Strand Vocabulary Standards
• Vocabulary standards appear as the first standard in the Reading Strand in grades 4-12
• Instruction should emphasize common Greek and Latin roots and affixes
• Instruction should include word study in authentic texts and differentiation between denotation and connotation
• SOL assessments will test vocabulary in passages and stand-alone items
Tracy Fair Robertson, English Coordinator
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YEAR ONE - January-June
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AND “refining” our program
Word Root (base)
Meaning
ven, vent comeform form,
shapetrop turn chron timespect, spic watch,
look atmort dead,
deathtort, torque twist, turncapit, cipit headmorph form,
shapecours, cur(r), curs
run, go
vers, vert turnsed, sid, sess sit, settleannu, enni year
Brooke Point Blackhawks Building Vocabulary from Word Roots 2012-13
Stafford Indians Building Vocabulary from Word Roots 2012-13
North Stafford Wolverines Building Vocabulary from Word Roots 2012-13
Word Root (base)
Meaning
ven, vent comeform form,
shapetrop turn chron timespect, spic watch,
look atmort dead,
deathtort, torque twist, turncapit, cipit headmorph form,
shapecours, cur(r), curs
run, go
vers, vert turnsed, sid, sess sit, settleannu, enni year
Word Root (base)
Meaning
ven, vent comeform form,
shapetrop turn chron timespect, spic watch,
look atmort dead,
deathtort, torque twist, turncapit, cipit headmorph form,
shapecours, cur(r), curs
run, go
vers, vert turnsed, sid, sess sit, settleannu, enni year
Specialized Root Lists Don’t forget about the
Most Common SAT Roots
Word Root What It Means Examples From My Reading
ante
anti
auto
bene
chron
circum
co/con
contra/counter
cred
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