Anglo-Saxon
These are the types of words that make up the Anglo-Saxon layer
(e.g., everyday words, complex science words, or academic words?)
What are everyday/common words?
The Latin layer usually gives us longer words used in books, reading, and this place where you spend your weekdays.
What is school (or classroom/academics)
The Greek layer gives us words mainly used in these two school subjects that involve experiments and numbers.
What are Science and Math?
Identify the layer for the word house.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
Anglo-Saxon words are usually very short and often have this many syllables.
What is one (or single-syllable)
The Latin root audi means this action you do with your ears.
What is hear (or listen)?
The Greek root phobia means having an extreme version of this emotion.
What is fear?
Identify the layer for the root chron (meaning time).
What is Greek?
This Anglo-Saxon word refers to the person who raises you and shares a common home.
What is mother (or father/parent)
If the Latin root struct means "to build," this word means to build something again after it falls.
What is reconstruct (or rebuild)?
The Greek root tele means "far away." This tool lets you talk to someone far away
What is a telephone?
Identify the layer for the root form (meaning shape).
What is Latin?
Name two common Anglo-Saxon words for basic elements in nature (hint: shining in the sky or flowing in rivers).
What are sun, moon, rain, land, or water?
The Latin root aqua means water. Name a place where fish live in a glass container.
What is an aquarium?
The Greek root graph means "to write." What is the instrument used to write down photographs or drawings using light?
What is a camera (or photograph/telegraph)?
Which layer usually combines two distinct root words together to make one big word, like biodiversity or microscope?
What is Greek?