What’s on the Word Roots: Numbers and Size 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.
- uni — one — unicorn, uniform, unique
- bi — two — bicycle, bilingual, binary
- tri — three — triangle, tricycle, trio
- multi — many — multiply, multiple
- micro — small — microscope, microphone
- mega / macro — large — megaphone, macroscopic
Set 5 of 6. Meet an unknown word? Split it and translate the parts.
Questions about the Word Roots: Numbers and Size poster
- What’s on the Word Roots: Numbers and Size 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. uni — one — unicorn, uniform, unique; bi — two — bicycle, bilingual, binary; tri — three — triangle, tricycle, trio; multi — many — multiply, multiple; micro — small — microscope, microphone; mega / macro — large — megaphone, macroscopic. Set 5 of 6. Meet an unknown word? Split it and translate the parts.
- Who is the Word Roots: Numbers and Size poster for?
- Word Roots: Numbers and Size 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: Numbers and Size 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: Numbers and Size belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Word Roots: Numbers and Size?
- Word Roots: Earth and Sky, Word Roots: Life and Body and Word Roots: Moving and Carrying sit alongside Word Roots: Numbers and Size 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: Numbers and Size poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Word Roots: Numbers and Size 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: Numbers and Size poster print at?
- Word Roots: Numbers and Size 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: Numbers and Size loses nothing.Printing guide
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