Words on the Vine: 36 Vocabulary Units on Root Words

I love this book! I have used it with 3 of my children so far and plan next year to use it wth my youngest. Each of the 36 lessons has 3 activity sheets plus suggestions for further activities. There are a couple of levels of activities, so you could easily return to the book later and do the harder ones as review. In addition, each lesson has other words listed that also share the root, so it would allow for additional work if you wanted to spread out the book over 2 years or use later again. My only complaint, which another reviewer mentioned, is that there is not a Words on the Vine 2-that is a real cirme!

My kids and I worked this book over the summer. What a great introduction to Latin!

Can anyone tell me if the book words on the vine has an answer key with it? Thanks. sgray

My homeschooled daughter began this book in the 5th grade, and we were able to drag it out through the 6th grade. We are now at the end of the book and both sad that there isn't a 2nd one. I don't know of any other workbook, textbook, anything that my daughter was so sad to finish (and before this language arts was her least favorite subject). I highly recommend it for any child as a latin primer and/or vocabulary builder. Great book!!!

I just started using Words on the Vine with my homeschooled 9-year-old a few months ago. I stumbled across it one day while browsing Amazon and thought it looked like it would be fun as well as educational (it is). I also thought I had found a secular text, I was wrong. We were several roots into the book before I noticed the first one - a question that asks, "Name a holiday that a Gentile does not celebrate. Why?" Uh-oh, so I start flipping through the book. Sure enough there's more - like "name two Archangels", a modern day Jonah & the Wale tale, along with a few others. On the other side of the coin, to be totally fair, there are also questions about what astrologers are, a writing assignment about what it would be like to be reincarnated as a bird, and mentioning of T-rex ruling during the late Mesozoic Era. If ANY of these things seriously bother you, you're probably better off looking elsewhere.

That said this is still a really great book and I would certainly buy it again! You'll definitely do a lot more that just learn some Latin/Greek roots and improve your vocabulary. Many of the questions are related to history, geography, and science so unless you're a walking encyclopedia you'll probably need to do some research to answer them. For example: In what South American country have hydrolyte geodes been found? How did the ancient Egyptians use geometry? Who developed ideas that contradicted Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe? What famous subterranean tourist site is located in New Mexico? Where is John F. Kennedy interred? Name three Mediterranean countries.... Etc. You'll definitely want to have a dictionary and an encyclopedia handy (or at least access to the Internet).