Year 8 · English · Reading
Vocabulary and word origins
Use roots and affixes to unlock challenging words, understand connotation and shades of meaning, and interpret idioms.
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- 3D lesson: Vocabulary and word origins — Crack long words apart into Greek and Latin root tiles, grow word families with suffixes, rank words by their shades of meaning and decode idioms and whakataukī.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 3 (Years 7–8), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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More Year 8 English topics
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