WTWRootFamiliesGW022410

Choose three words from your Words Their Way list. When you choose the words, look up the root of each word (Go to the Sandburg Website, - Teacher Pages - Technology - Reading - Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes) and write down the root's meaning. After that, find 5 additional words that have the same root.

My word: woman Root:  woman Meaning: **:** an adult female person  Related words: womankind, womanliness, womanlike, bondwoman, jurywoman
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My word: wolf Root: wolf Meaning: any of several large predatory that live and hunt in packs and resemble the related dogs Related words: wolflike, wolfish, unwolfish, wolfing, wolfed

My word:deer Root:deer Meaning:a small mammal Related words: deerlike, deerskin, deerstalker, deers