Rummy Roots

by Eternal Hearts

Product Features

• Vocabulary
• Latin
• Greek
• Games

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000GTBCBQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,190 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Product Description

Vocabulary Card Games

* Teaches 42 Greek and Latin Roots
* Increases Word Understanding
* Improves Dictionary Competency
* Fun and Challenging
* 4 Games in 1
* Ages 8 to Adult

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good start, August 23, 2006

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D. Lyon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rummy Roots (Toy)

This fun game is a good beginning to learning roots for words. The rules are basic and some questions arise in play that the given rules don't answer. So, we just make up our own and establish at the beginning of play.
There are several games to play at different levels of knowledge starting with a game that assumes the players know nothing of roots. If your kids can read, your kids can learn their roots.
What I really like is that it has levels of strategy that can become more complicated with each level of play, so if your kids are competitive players, the game is even more challenging.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to start kids with learning roots, October 16, 2009

By 

G. Allen (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rummy Roots (Toy)

We first played this game quite a few years ago. I think it laid a foundation for our daughter to have an interest in roots. Understanding that roots are beneficial is a great help in Biology and Anatomy & Physiology (and life in general). I'm very happy we played this game with her at an early age. If you or your child has not already explored learning roots this is a great way to start.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars trying to make learning vocab fun, December 22, 2010

By 

catherine - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rummy Roots (Toy)

I ordered this game after a student complained that not only were my SAT prep lessons boring, but she also wasn't learning anything. She said it didn't do any good to learn strategies and clue words when she didn't know most of the other words in the sentence. The SAT uses so many words that are unfamiliar to my students that I could see her point. Yet I can't teach 1,000 vocab words in a semester, so I am hoping learning some Greek roots would help them decipher a few.

I had the same girl try out this game with 3 other students. They all agreed it was fun and was helping them learn the roots and a few new words. There are several ways to play - one version is similar to "Go Fish" and the other ways are more like Rummy. In the Rummy version students built words from 2 roots, but they needed to refer to a word list which was included, but I had to make copies so each student had their own.

I would like to see the game use less common roots - I feel like most people will know roots like AQUA, TELE and BIO. Also in the Rummy game, they build words, and I would like to see more advanced words - telegraph is not a word that is going to come up much or help students on the SAT. I would like to order Rummy Roots II to see if it is more appropriate for SAT prep/high school curriculum, but my main complaint is the expense of this game; Only 4 players per game and at $16 plus shipping, there is no way I can afford enough sets for a class of 30+ kids.