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4-4-R-2

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Standard 4: Vocabulary
Students will expand their working vocabularies to effectively communicate and understand texts.

READING: Students will expand academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabularies through reading, word study, and class discussion.
4.4.R.2 Students will use word parts (e.g., affixes, Greek and Latin roots, stems) to define and determine the meaning of new words.
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Students will use word parts (prefixes, suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, stems) to define new words.

Teachers explain the meanings of Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes.
Teachers model how to use common word parts to determine the meanings of the words.
Teachers provide opportunities for students to apply knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes to determine the meanings of unknown words.
Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they define new words.

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Affix is a morpheme or meaningful part of a word attached before or after a root to modify its meaning. Principal kinds of affixes are prefixes and suffixes. Affix is the broad category for prefix and suffix. The prefix un- is an affix, which added to balanced, makes unbalanced. The suffix -ed is an affix which added to wish, makes wished.
Stem is the base form of a word, also called the root word. Examples of a stem (or root word): jump, walk, run.
Root is a bound morpheme, usually of Latin origin, that cannot stand alone but is used to form a family of words with related meanings.

A majority of word parts are derived from Greek or Latin. Therefore, knowledge of the origin (etymology) of Greek and Latin Roots and affixes is used to make connections to the meaning of new words.
Examples of a root: photo, bio, phobia, micro, auto

Base is a free morpheme to which affixes can be added, usually of Anglo-Saxon origin.

The intent of this standard is to focus on applying the skill of breaking down words and understanding affixes’ and Greek and Latin roots’ contribution to the meaning of a word, not just to memorize a list of prefixes, suffixes, and root words.