Shared Exploration

Students read short passages and underline all words that share the same root. After identifying the shared root, they explain both its meaning and how it connects the related words in each passage. This activity encourages close reading and highlights relationships between words built from the same linguistic base. Learners analyze how roots unify meaning across multiple terms and how context influences interpretation. The worksheet builds foundational skills for decoding, academic vocabulary development, and comprehension of complex texts.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Identifying and Analyzing Roots in Context

English Language Arts – Vocabulary Connections and Word Families

English Language Arts – Reading Comprehension and Text Analysis

English Language Arts – Morphology and Semantic Understanding

This worksheet is part of our Root Words Worksheets collection.