Greek and Latin Roots Practice

About Greek and Latin Roots Practice

This free sixth grade practice teaches the Greek and Latin roots behind thousands of English words. Students learn what roots such as tele, graph, port and rupt mean, spot them inside words, and use them to work out the meaning of a new word. Each answer gets instant feedback, and a hint appears after two misses.

Three levels of ten questions each move from common roots with example words to harder roots and words built from two roots. Earn up to three stars per level. Questions change every time.

Skills Practiced

• Knowing the meaning of common Greek and Latin roots
• Finding the root shared by a group of words
• Choosing the word that has a given root
• Using root meanings to find a word definition
• Combining two roots to understand a longer word