Vocabulary from Classical Roots - C

This review is for the whole series. I'm using these books with students who need vocabulary work. It is helping them across the board. For example, one student, who is working on book A, just finished the first two sections of the book, which contain words about numbers of things (mono/uni = 1, bi/di = 2, tri=3 and so on). Yesterday, she and I looked at her math class work. They're learning about polynomials. Her vocabulary list contains words such as monomial, binomial, trinomial... and she exclaimed, with joy, "I know these! We just learned these! The rest of the class took the whole period with this and still didn't get it and I did." She's lagged in vocabulary for so long, it's a delight to see her surging ahead. I would use the numbered books with students in middle school and needier high school students, and the A and above with average students in high school. More advanced high school students would zoom through the first few and then find material that will help them. Great for general vocab and SAT prep.

I know this book is meant for older kids but, it's so well laid out and easy to understand that my six year old son just completed book 4 and loved it. Now every time he hears a root word, suffix or prefix that he recognized he gets so excited. The lessons are so short and concise that we discuss one lesson at each dinner time. Then he takes the unit review quiz at the end of the week and always aces it not because he is super smart but because the lessons focus on understanding not memorization. If you're interested in improving vocabulary skills, The Classical Roots books are great for any age. I bought books 4-6 and A-E and plan to work with my sons through the whole series.

This curricula is easy to use, designed for students to work independently with little teacher intervention, and it gives students a chance to not only learn vocabulary which they may need to know for college entrance tests, but also it's fun to see where all the words we say emanated (e.g. Latin, Greek, etc.). For students or "wordsmiths" this curricula requires about 15 minutes a day and is a painless way to teach vocabulary roots necessary to decipher unknown words in the future as well as improve your vocabulary.

I LOVE this series! These books have help build an incredible foundation for my son. He started with the first book and is now in the high school level. These books are a wonderful addition to a classical language education.

As an adult, I enjoy these vocabulary books just to keep my mind sharp as I am aging. I particularly like that they have a Latin Roots approach.

My oldest daughter loves them and my boys even think they're "not too bad." The kids work on them about 15 minutes a day. They've helped their spelling and knowledge of root words, and root origins.

Very Good!

My daughter 14, loves to learn new words and this book really covered what I had been looking for, the origin and roots along with synonyms. We don"t need spend a lot of time on vocabulary because the book covers the word descriptions in such a manner that its easier for her to remember.