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Some hints on today's lesson: potato, turnip, carrot...rutabaga. Yep, root words. Well, not exactly like those, but you'll see.

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Transcript

00:04

[Coop and Dino singing]

00:13

A “root word” is like… well, it's like a root. Why? Because it's a word from which [Word falls off branch of a tree]

00:18

lots of other words come from.

00:20

Kind of like how lots of different branches can come from one tree root.. Get it?

00:24

Someone did a really good job naming this thing. We hope they got a promotion. [Man presenting root words to group of people]

00:28

From a root word, we get more words that might have similar sounds or meanings, all of which

00:32

make up one big, happy “root family.” Aww.

00:35

Root words are similar to prefixes and suffixes in that they can’t be broken down into any [Dino explaining root words]

00:40

smaller words.

00:41

And by that, we mean they’re super strong. They’re unbeatable.

00:44

They’re basically the Superman of words. [Man shoots at Superman and man runs away]

00:46

So let's check out some examples!

00:49

In the word “swimming”, the root word is… you guessed it - “swim.”

00:53

And swimming is an “activity” whose root word is “act”, from a Latin word meaning

00:58

“to do”.

00:59

And an “activity” is “something that you do.”

01:01

Cool, huh?

01:02

And here's a list of root words you can check out. [Examples of root words listed on sheet of paper]

01:04

Can you figure out what words are hidden in them?

01:09

A root word can also be a word that we don’t normally use in English, like the Greek word

01:13

“phon”, meaning sound.

01:15

From which we get the word “cacophony”…

01:17

…as well as the word “symphony”… [People playing violin]

01:19

…and the word “phone.”

01:21

Whoops… we forgot to tell you to silence your cell phone before this feature presentation. [Person shines flash light on girl in theater]

01:25

And a word family is a group of words that share the same root and are related in meaning.

01:30

Word family members of “cacophony” and “symphony”, includes the words “microphone”

01:35

and “megaphone”. All of them are related to that same root word, “phon.”

01:38

And you know what they say, the family that shares root words together stays together. [Family at the table sharing root words]

01:42

…do they not say that? Well, they should.

01:45

Knowing root words is helpful when you’re trying to figure out the meaning of a new word.

01:48

Like if you came upon the word “desolate.”

01:51

You might recognize part of the word, which is related to a word you do know.

01:55

And from there you could figure out that “desolate” describes a place where you feel alone. See? [Girl reading The Lonely Sensei book]

02:00

You did that all by yourself. No dictionary… or dictionary app… necessary.

02:05

That being said, it's always a good idea to check with a dictionary. [Dictionary book opens up to page of desolate meaning]

02:08

But context clues can also confirm that definition.

02:11

And using context clues in combination with a root word is what we’d call… branching out.

02:17

Get it? Branching? Like…trees? [Boy falls off chair in class]

02:18

Man, how do we make you guys laugh? We're positively….stumped. [Man stood on a tree stump]

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