Big, hard words in science are invariably made up of small, easy Greek- and Latin-based prefixes, suffixes, and root words that students can systematically learn, continually use, and creatively recombine. An unusually long science word; a simple (i.e., no technical terminology) but incomprehensible paragraph; and verbose, scientific-sounding versions of popular witticisms are used to introduce the science reading skill of word translation via dissection.