roots

Presents in concise readable form the ancestral sources of over six thousand common English words and how they have grown into the terms we use today.

"[A dictionary in which] over 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken before the advent of writing"--Back cover.

Contains a collection of exercises that compare the English language to its Latin and Greek origins and discusses elements from the Indo-European family of languages such as Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, and Italic roots.

Introduces more than 100 word roots and presents words stemming from each root.

Contains reproducible pages of word sorts and instructional strategies aimed at helping students excel in the derivational relations stage of spelling; and includes teacher's notes and assessments.