Wordstone Tower

Wordstone Tower gives a selection of Greek and Latin morphemes, many of which are affixes. After putting them together in different combinations to create new words, you can try and figure out their likely meanings. The words can be put together completely at random, or you can reflect on which words have a plausible morphology (i.e. look like they could be English words because they use the roots and affixes in a plausible order). You could also make use of the question mark stone, which allows students to create their own morphemes and fit them together in any combination.

How it works

• there are 15 morpheme stones on the grass, you can drag morpheme stones on to the work bench and then join the stones to create a word
• once you have created a word, a animated eagle takes the stone and puts the word on the 'word tower'
• you are also allowed to define your own morpheme using the blank stone, so you don't have to use the predefined morpheme to create your word
• once you have accumulated up to 15 words on the 'word tower' you can give your meanings for each word created
• you can finish the game anytime you want by clicking on the finish button
• the game also allows you to print your work

You can play the offline version of Wordstine Tower (pdf).