提高英语的读写能力——拉丁、希腊语词根.pptVIP

English Words from Latin Greek  Increase spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension ;How many words are there in the English Language? ;Yea, yea, so get to the point…;Are you ready for this? ;Real world demands….; The average sixth grade student knows approximately 25,000 words. The average high school graduate knows approximately 50,000 words. This means that average students learn roughly 2000-3,000 words a year (Graves, 2007). This translates to 8 words a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year - including weekends or summers.;Some specifics on the importance of vocabulary… Growing up in poverty can seriously restrict the vocabulary children learn before beginning school and make attaining an adequate vocabulary a very challenging task (Coyne, Simmons, Kameenui, 2004; Hart Risley, 1995). Less advantaged students are likely to have substantially smaller vocabularies than their more advantaged classmates (Templin, 1957; White, Graves, Slater, 1990).;It is estimated that by age 3, some less advantaged students have heard 30 million fewer words than their more advantaged peers. It is also estimated these students’ vocabularies may be half the size of those of their more advantaged counterparts (Hart and Risely 2003 Graves, 2007 ). ;Bet cha’ didn’t know… ;Here is a short cut! ;;20 Most Frequent Prefixes in School Texts;Prefixes: Meaning and Connotation;Derivational Suffixes;;;;Content-Specific Greek Terms Anatomy and Medical Terms esophagus, thyroid, diagnosis, psoriasis, dyslexia Studies and Sciences biology, seismology, morphology, geochronometry Animals and Plants arachnid, amphibian, chlorophyll, dinosaur, nectar Theatre and the Arts charisma, drama, chorus, muse, symphony, acoustics; Look Inside—Look Outside pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Look inside the word for known word parts: prefixes, roots or combining forms, suffixes. Use the analogy strategy—“I don’t know this word, but I know pneumonia and I know volc