Vocabulary
We have been exploring affixes, roots & base words in our forth quarter read aloud, Millicent Min, Girl Genius. The class has done word sorts to learn meanings through discovery.
We have been exploring affixes, roots & base words in our forth quarter read aloud, Millicent Min, Girl Genius. The class has done word sorts to learn meanings through discovery.
From Words Their Way by Donald Bear (2004)
"The terms base word and root word are often used interchangeably. We [the authors] prefer to use base word to when referring to words that stand on their own after all prefixes and suffixes have been removed (govern in government; agree in agreement). [This is done to avoid confusion with the term] ... word root, which refers to the part of a word that remains after all prefixes and suffixes have been removed, but is not a word that can stand by itself (vis in visible and spec in spectator); these word roots usually come from Greek or Latin" ( p. 230).