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What useful or ridiculous inventions are hiding inside Greek and Latin roots?
Five idioms related to noses.
How many words can you find within “leopard”?
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
What on earth is a Aquamorphotron? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?
How many words can you find within LATKES?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?
How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?
Five idioms related to hands.
What on earth is a Hydromagnaphone? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Five idioms related to salt.
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Five idioms related to birds.
How many words can you find within “cranberry”?
How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?
Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?
How many words can you find within Patrick?
Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
What on earth is a Psycholunaphase? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent the creature, device, or spell it describes.
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Five idioms related to numbers.
Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.
Five idioms related to geese.
How many words can you find within PARKING?
What on earth is a Plexidemokinesis? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.
Five idioms related to mouths.
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
How many words can you find within rainbow?
Five idioms related to food.
Five idioms related to hands and fingers.
How many words can you find within “general”?
Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect T and PLANET?
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
