Just typed that phrase in my search function and as I suspected discovered I’d used it in one title previously…..so I added “or Latin.”
I thought this was an interesting educational idea. Its about teaching elementary kids root words and suggests it can pay big dividends. I’ve always paid attention to them and never more so than when I happlessly took Spanish for a year in college. I found I could guess a lot of Spanish words from their Latin roots. Eg. verde (spring) and the English verdant.
For about a dozen years I was the pronouncer at our regional spelling bees. I see I’ve mentioned this several times through the years in the blog too. Kids were always asking for the use of words in sentences or their language of origin…that means root.
