I bought EFRU vocab cards without a book, and I was

[Shasta Mom]

wondering if anyone had advice of how to apply it..........Do we just pick a few words at a time to memorize all the relevant info? THanks!

[Shasta Mom]

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[VaKim]

Well, we had the book and not the cards, so we made our own cards. We just took anywhere from 1-3 new words per week and memorized them. We did not memorize the other information, but only discussed it and used it to help us remember what the words meant.:)

[Hen Jen]

we just started last week, I have the pre-made cards, but I am having my kids use them as a template and make their own- I think that might help them learn better. I also have the book. So far it seems pretty straightforward to me,

I write the word on a whiteboard and write the definition. Point out if it is a Greek or Latin word (green border for greek, red for latin) then we discuss the derivatives and I ask them for a few, then I write them on the whiteboard.

I give the kids index cards, I have done the borders and written the word on the front- for the little kids I have written the derivatives and their defs on the back, I left a blank space on the top for them to write the definition.

for the older kids, the back is blank and they write all that in.

that is pretty much it. The book has charts on greek alphabet and how to pronounce latin, it suggests how to use it in a classroom and suggests a good dictionary. The rest are whole pages for each word, much like the flashcards. I think you could easily use it without the book.

good luck with it!

[linders]

I also bought just the cards, based on the advice of others and my boys and I have been using them about 6 weeks.

When I first got them, I reordered the cards into my idea of more-common-to-less-common roots (totally biased). Each Monday I pull out the next 2 cards. I tell them the root and some words using it, then have them try to guess the meaning of the root. (They are starting to catch on to this.) Then we talk about the actual meaning of the root and how that relates to the meaning of the words using that root. The rest of that week we review those roots for a couple of minutes each morning. On Friday we do an oral quiz reviewing all of our roots so far.

As an extra reinforcement, I encourage them to "spot roots" during our readaloud and independent reading time, and they keep track of how many they find.

So far it has been easy, and I do think it will be useful.

Best of luck!