Boosting student confidence in 3rd and 4th grade Greek and Latin roots, syllabication, and base words has never been easier! These Thanksgiving Roots, Bases, and Syllables task card activities are a simple way to sneak in some important vocabulary skills practice and review while enhancing student engagement at the same time. 

You'll love how these vocabulary skills task card station activities for roots, bases, and syllables help your students build independent work habits and free up time for you to work with small groups and students who need more help.

Free yourself from the Sunday Night Scaries this November with the versatility, flexibility, and simplicity of these Thanksgiving themed vocabulary skills task cards. This convenient set of task cards for roots, bases, and syllables has your Thanksgiving vocabulary practice covered. With options for traditional task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards, you'll always be prepared! 

The 36 Thanksgiving Roots, Base Words, And Syllables Task Cards come in 5 easy-to-use formats:

• Traditional quarter-page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer-friendly, quarter-page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole-class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative learning structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel-ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

The Thanksgiving themed graphics on each roots, bases, and syllables task card will grab your 3rd and 4th grade students' attention and help keep them engaged while they practice and review their way to mastery of Greek and Latin roots, base words, and syllables. Whether you have students working together on vocabulary skills or practicing independently, task card activities are a great tool for helping them maintain focus and attention to the task at hand.

Concepts Included in Thanksgiving Vocabulary Skills Task Cards:

• recognizing the number of syllables in a word
• dividing words into syllables
• identifying the base of words with prefixes and suffixes present
• recognizing Greek and Latin roots of words that influence the meaning of the word

PLEASE NOTE: The words in this card set are identical to those in some my other holiday-themed sets of vocabulary task cards. Only the clipart has been changed to match the Thanksgiving season. 

To prepare these Thanksgiving Roots, Bases, and Syllables Task Cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Thanksgiving Roots, Base Words, and Syllables Task Cards in Action:

Get ready to feel like the high-engagement teacher that you really are, because these vocabulary skills task cards can be used (and reused) in so many ways! Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang on the walls for Write the Room.

• Place cards at a table to be completed as an independent reading station activity.

• Use as the content for your favorite ELA test prep practice & review game.

• Use them with small groups as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure.

• Display one at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few slides a day for practice in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white version to assign as homework.

Grab these time-saving vocabulary skills task cards so you can enjoy family time this weekend knowing your practice for 3rd and 4th grade Greek and Latin roots, base words, and syllables is ready to go!

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