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Welcome to the world of words! You are entering a virtual time and space machine.
As Albert Einstein said, "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Originyms offers a fun and fascinating way to unlock and unleash your imagination and your intelligence through an amazing network of words, word families and word wizardry! Come on and join us...
Originyms - 3 Types of Word Families
Just like people, most words have families with siblings, parents, grandparents, cousins, and distant ancestors. In order to begin to organize our vast English language into a set of easy to learn and remember collections, we have created 3 main groups of word families. They are outlined below along with a few other key resources to help make your learning fast and fun!
1 - The Genius Word Families
The Genius Word Families are those families of words that are actually related and have evolved over time from the same root origins. We've named them the 'genius' families because they comprise the largest word families in the English language to help you begin strong to quickly learn and master many large groups of words at a time and their powerful meanings!
2 - Root Word Family Groups
Root Word Families all have the same or a closely similar root meaning and may or may not be related etymologically. We’ve grouped these with the goal of building on and expanding our solid foundation from our Genius Word Families.
3 - Root Meaning Family Groups
Root Meaning Word Families seem to have the same or very similar root meanings but are not actually related as far as we know. This group of families is much larger because we are combining root meanings that may or may not be the same but appear to be very closely related.
The Genius Schoolhouse
Here we help students continue to expand their core knowledge 'meanings' network by beginning to tie it all to real world application. We boil it back down to the basics to review what we've learned and then get creative and consider all the possibilities of the amazing things we can now do with our ongoing education and with life.
The Wordy Nerds - Fun and Games
With our crazy Wordy Nerds projects, activities and games, we apply Originyms to emotional and social intelligence by learning how powerful becoming word masters can be in expressing our emotions and communicating more effectively. For example, wordy nerds don't need dirty words, we can put a sailor in his place without talking like one - and ours have more than four letters!
Originyms Meaning Trees
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Word Building Basics
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