Greek and Latin Roots Warm Ups: Unit 5
sect- cut or separate
Day 1: Introduction
Day 2: Sentence Starter
One insect I don’t like or am afraid of is a______
I live near this intersection: ______
Day 3: Frayer Model
Select one word from the easy list and one word from the challenging list, and complete the Frayer models below.
Day 3: Word Connections
Select one word from the easy list and one word from the challenging list, and complete the word connections below.
Word:______
Day 4: Sentence Completion
Fill in the blanks below with the correct word from the word bank.
1. Callie likes to sit right in the middle of our living room ______when she’s watching television.
2. The city named the ______“Colby’s Crossing” in honor of the man who built the first mill right where the two roads cross today.
3. Paolo ordered an avocado roll from the restaurant and asked if the chef would ______it, or cut it into two separate pieces.
4. After the storm, one ______of our town didn’t have electricity.
5. Students in biology were asked to ______a dead frog in order to learn more about its anatomy.
Day 5: Review
Use the vocabulary words to answer each of the following questions.
1. What type of creature is a fly, which has a head, abdomen, and thorax?
2. The teacher asked us to only read one part of our story silently. What word describes the part she wanted us to read?
3. Dr. Schmidt is researching the current effects of cancer treatments on living animals. What type of procedure is he likely to complete on these animals?
4. Three of us were sharing a candy bar. What did we have to do to the candy to make sure we each got an even piece?
5. When building a new road, a special blade is used to cut across the cement. What will this blade do?