What’s on the Word Roots: Time and Order poster
A 6-row table: Root · Means · Words built on it.
Learn the root and you can guess at words you have never seen before.
- chron — time — chronicle, synchronise
- ann / enn — year — annual, anniversary, millennium
- prim — first — primary, primitive
- post — after — postpone, postscript
- pre — before — preview, predict, prepare
- tele — far off — telephone, television, telescope
Set 6 of 6. Meet an unknown word? Split it and translate the parts.
Questions about the Word Roots: Time and Order poster
- What’s on the Word Roots: Time and Order poster?
- A 6-row table: Root · Means · Words built on it. Learn the root and you can guess at words you have never seen before. chron — time — chronicle, synchronise; ann / enn — year — annual, anniversary, millennium; prim — first — primary, primitive; post — after — postpone, postscript; pre — before — preview, predict, prepare; tele — far off — telephone, television, telescope. Set 6 of 6. Meet an unknown word? Split it and translate the parts.
- Who is the Word Roots: Time and Order poster for?
- Word Roots: Time and Order is filed under 5th Grade (ages 10–11), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Word Roots: Time and Order poster?
- One root a day beats one word a day — a root unlocks a dozen words. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Word Roots: Time and Order belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Word Roots: Time and Order?
- Word Roots: Earth and Sky, Word Roots: Life and Body and Word Roots: Moving and Carrying sit alongside Word Roots: Time and Order in the 5th Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Word Roots: Earth and SkyWord Roots: Life and BodyWord Roots: Moving and Carrying
- Is the Word Roots: Time and Order poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Word Roots: Time and Order downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 5th Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Word Roots: Time and Order poster print at?
- Word Roots: Time and Order is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Word Roots: Time and Order loses nothing.Printing guide
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