Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.3.C
identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as trans-, super-, -ive, and -logy and roots such as geo and photo; and
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.11.D
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
(ii) past tense of irregular verbs;
(iii) collective nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) conjunctive adverbs;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
(vii) pronouns, including indefinite;
(viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;
(ix) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
(x) italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
5th Grade Writing - Word Roots Lesson
Word Roots
Many English words have roots that are derived from Greek and Latin roots. Knowledge of these and other roots can help us understand not only the meanings of words, but also their spellings.
Example:
digraph → two written letters that make one sound, like ea makes a long e, /ē/, sound.
paragraph → a group of sentences that form a section of a written work.