Identify Word Parts to Determine the Meaning

I will be able to ​identify and define new and unfamiliar words by learning word parts

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I know I will have it when I am able to define a word using word parts.​

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​Goal for Today

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​I CAN use strategies to determine the meaning of unknown words.

During Science class, our teacher displayed a photograph of a tree.

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​photograph

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During Science class, our teacher displayed a photograph of a tree.

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(root word) photo = light

(root word) graph-​ = write or draw

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​TIDBITS: The word “photography” literally means “drawing with light”. The word was supposedly first coined by the British scientist Sir John Herschel in 1839 from the Greek words phos, (genitive: phōtós) meaning “light”, and graphê meaning “drawing or writing”.

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Next, she dictated several terms related to plants.

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Next, she dictated several terms related to plants.

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(root word) dict = to say or speak

(suffix) -ed = (signifies a past action)​

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​1590s, "to practice dictation, say aloud for another to write down," from Latin dictatus

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She inspected the notes of some students.

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She inspected the notes of some students.

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(root word) spect = to look

(suffix) -ed​ = (signifies a past action)

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Green plants use air, water, and sunlight to make food during photosynthesis.

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Green plants use air, water, and sunlight to make food during photosynthesis.

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(root word) photo = light

(prefix) syn-​ = same, together

(root word) thesis = to place or put​

​(suffix) sis = action, process

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Who first studied photosynthesis?

Jan Ingenhousz (December 8, 1730 - September 7, 1799) was an 18th century Dutch physician, biologist, and chemist who discovered how plants convert light into energy, the process known as photosynthesis.

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