Students are asked to take on an Investigator role that may include researching the "history and derivation of words or names" used in the book, which could involve etymology. The vocabulary activities require students to record definitions, write sentences, and create visual symbols for words such as "belligerently," "constrict," and "profound." The parent plan and skills list emphasize determining the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary using context clues and understanding new vocabulary.

The lesson notes that 'ante' is Latin for before when explaining the term antecedent, explicitly connecting a Latin root to word meaning. The antecedent examples (e.g., he -> Tree-ear) accompany that etymological note, giving a concrete instance of using a root as a clue to meaning.

Students are instructed to learn and review the Set 1 roots from the Beyond Roots II card game and to play matching games (Memory, Root Recall, Go Root!) that pair roots with their English meanings. The lesson gives an explicit example (geo = earth, -logy = science of) and asks students to use that knowledge to interpret the word "geology." Students are directed to take an online A quiz on Set 1 roots' meanings and a B quiz where they must apply their knowledge of root meanings. The Skills section explicitly states students will use knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes to understand content-area vocabulary.

The Parent Plan Skills explicitly tell students to use knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes to understand vocabulary and to determine meanings of words derived from roots and affixes. Activity 5 directs students to use the Beyond Roots II Set 1 cards, play root games, and take online roots quizzes; the Wrapping Up/Parent Plan reminds students to review Set 1 roots and their meanings. The skills list also includes identifying meaning of Latin and Greek foreign words and determining grade-level academic words derived from roots.

Students are directed to use the Beyond Roots II Set 2 cards and play root-focused games (Memory, Root Recall, Go Root!) and then take the Beyond Roots II, Set 2, A quiz to test knowledge. The lesson also instructs students to "Review the Set 2 roots and their meanings" and tells parents to check that the child reviews the Set 2 roots and their meanings. These activities require students to study and recall root meanings.

Students are directed to work with the Beyond Roots II Set 2 cards by playing games and retaking quizzes (Set 2 A and then Set 2 B). The parent plan explicitly tells students to review the Beyond Roots Set 2 roots and their meanings. The activities require practicing with root cards and taking online roots quizzes, which engage students with root meanings.

Students are directed to work with the Beyond Roots II Set 3 cards, play Memory/Root Recall/Go Root! games using those cards, and take the Set 3 A and B quizzes. The lesson tells students to "Review the Beyond Roots Set 3 roots and their meanings" and to retake quizzes if scores are below 80%. These activities require students to identify roots and their meanings and practice recalling them.

Activity 2 (Beyond Roots II) instructs students to review roots and their meanings using card sets and the game Go Root!. Students are directed to take the Beyond Roots II, All Sets, A quiz (covering root meanings) and the All Sets, B quiz, which uses words that contain two or more of the roots studied. The Wrapping Up and Parent Plan sections reiterate that students should review the roots and meanings from the Beyond Roots II game.

Students complete a Part III Roots activity in which they match root words (e.g., medi, inter, trans, retro, extra, tele) with their English meanings, and an answer key shows the correct pairings. Students also use a word box (hydrophobia, bibliophile, malformed, substructure, thermology) to choose words that fit given definitions, requiring them to identify and apply roots to determine word meanings. The unit repeatedly instructs students to review "roots meanings" with Beyond Roots II cards and includes roots-related items on the unit test, reinforcing root recognition and application.

Students encounter and work with words that contain classical roots (for example, the sentences to be corrected include geographer and geographies, which contain the Greek root geo-). The lesson gives an explicit vocabulary entry for ephemeral and asks students to review its definition. Students also copy and correct sentences that contain these words, providing incidental exposure to word forms derived from Greek/Latin morphemes.

Students are given word-origin information for a few vocabulary items: the entry notes that "feign means to pretend, but in Latin, the equivalent word means to form or shape," and the phrase "annus mirabilis" is presented with its Latin meaning "year of miracles." Vocabulary review also lists words such as eccentric and obstinate with definitions, exposing students to words of Latin/Greek origin.