About this book
Grade Level Equivalent: 2.1
Lexile Measure: 760L
Guided Reading Level: K
Age: Age 7, Age 5
Genre: General Nonfiction
Subject: Number Sense, Ratio, Proportion, Scale
Vocabulary
Write these words on the chalkboard:
million
billion
trillion
Ask students what the words have in common. (They all end the same way; they are the names for very large numbers.) Explain that million comes from a Latin word, mille, which means thousand. A million is a thousand 1,000s.
Activity/Making Connections
Challenge students to find other words that begin the way million does. Start a list on poster paper, and add to it as students come up with more words.
A million and more
mile
mileage
milipede
millionaire
- Subjects:Counting and Numbers, Literature, Literature Appreciation, Vocabulary, Word Origins and Usage, Math through Literature, Real-World Math, Early Math
- Skills:Vocabulary, Word Origins and Usage
