Blast Off! With Greek & Latin Roots Recurring Club!
In this recurring enrichment club, students will build a binder of Greek and Latin roots together with their derivatives while also building new words with roots, base words, suffixes and prefixes.
Susan Franklin
Average rating:
4.7
Number of reviews:(48)
What's included
1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
US Grade 4 - 6
In this course, students will participate in learning five new Greek and Latin roots, along with many of their English derivatives. We will start with a basic lesson with definitions and a few English derivatives. Flashcards and interactive online Google Slides printable workbook pages will be provided for each lesson. Common prefixes and suffixes will also be added to form new words from base words. As time allows, students will engage with sentence writing and sharing with the class, participating in daily review games such as board games, Kahoot! Quizlet, or paper Bingo. Students will improve their reading comprehension by expanding their vocabulary with these roots and English root derivatives. As they recognize the roots in unknown words they read, knowing the meaning of the root will help to determine the basic meaning, pronunciation, and spelling of the English word. Roots studied: Week of September 9: Roots populus, polis, urbs, curro, and verto plus English derivatives Week of September 16: Roots plico, scribo, biblos, liber, and scio plus English derivatives Week of September 23: Roots jacio, logos, verbum, cum, and pono plus English derivatives Week of September 30: Roots digitus, manus, jungo, caput, and corpus plus English derivatives Week of October 7: Roots dens, bracchium, sauros, figo, andignis plus English derivatives Week of October 14: Roots discipulus, amo, facio, magnus, and pathos plus English derivatives
Other Details
Supply List
Students will build a Greek & Latin Roots notebook with the weekly handouts provided by the teacher.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Joined October, 2019
4.7
48reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
As a home educator, I taught English to my own children. I have a major in English and years of teaching high school English. I returned to the classroom in 2015 to teach high school English at a charter school. During that time, I was motivated to request a change to reading instruction. My principal granted my request! And so, for two years I enjoyed reading intervention in small groups of elementary and middle school students. In 2019 I took the leap to becoming a full-time reading interventionist, teaching struggling readers using Zoom.
Here are two recommendations.
"Susan is an amazing teacher/tutor. She has a strong background in reading and writing and is able to turn student failure into success. I've seen students make multi-grade advances with her tutoring support."
-Joyce Faulks Jackson, Diagnostician, Newman International Academy of Cedar Hill
Executive Director of Special Education, Grand Prairie ISD - retired
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"I highly recommend Susan Franklin. My son Matthew, who has struggled in class with reading/ writing has been working with Mrs. Susan and has really benefited. Since he has been attending tutoring (July 2016) his reading skills and confidence have improved tremendously; his school teachers have noticed the change from last year.
In the past, we have tried other various teaching tools from online videos, flashcards, and phonics in which became overwhelming. This led to frustration with our son and no direction in place to help him. Matthew and I visited with Mrs. Susan expressing our concerns regarding his reading issues that he has been experiencing at school, she presented a plan on how to approach with comprehensive lessons that Matt has followed. Mrs. Susan has shown flexibility in working with us on scheduling tutoring around soccer practices and other things that may arise. My wife and I are most grateful for the hard work and patience that Mrs. S has shown him
This makes us proud as parents knowing that our son can now read and that we have chosen the right person to teach our son Thank you, Mrs. Susan!"
-Mr.& Mrs. Eli CastorenaReviews
Live Group Class
$10
weekly1x per week
45 min
Live video meetings
Ages: 11-14
2-6 learners per class
