Solstice Word Roots Lesson
Grades 3–8
Celebrate the summer solstice with a vocabulary-building lesson that helps students explore the root behind words connected to the sun.
This simple morphology lesson from Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick M. Newton, and Evangeline Newton introduces students to the Latin root sol, meaning "sun." Through engaging vocabulary activities, students strengthen word knowledge while discovering how this root appears in familiar academic and everyday words related to sunlight, solar energy, and the natural world.
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