This Reading Mama
Compound Word Pack
Class + room = classroom! And your class + this compound word game = fun and learning! Kids match cards that include words and sometimes images to create compound words.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphic Elements, Compound Word Trivia
Engage young learners in expanding their vocabulary with a fun game. Scholars learn how compound words provide clues about the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary. Pairs take turns reading a definition, locating its corresponding compound...
Really Good Stuff
Compound Word Addition
Sometimes you can add two words together to make one longer word! Practice doing just this with your class with the worksheets and activities included here. The main goal here is to look at an image, name it, and figure out the two words...
Curated OER
Compound Words
First graders discuss what compound words are and what they look like as a whole group. In this compound words lesson, learnerseach have a single word card and pair up with another student to create a compound word. A valuable,...
Blake Education
Compound Word Snaps
Two worksheets with five exercises each? What's not to like? Kids practice using and identifying compound words and work on spelling for these activities.
PBS
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat: Flash Card Games
Expand the vocabulary of young readers with this series of five activities based the children's book Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback. From playing bingo to group storytelling, a variety of different approaches are presented...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 10 - Compound Words
Individually, words have power, but when added together, they can take on a whole other level of meaning. Readers learn about compound words in the 10th of 17 lessons of the Word Recognition and Fluency series. A script provides guidance...
Blake Education
Compound Word Snaps
Build up your pupils' understanding of compound words with a pair of worksheets. Each worksheet is made up of four straightforward activities that focus on compound words and a bonus spelling challenge.
Curated OER
Compound Word Games
Learners build compound words out of two separate words using a variety of activities. In this compound word lesson plan, students practice building compound words using word cards. These word cards can be used in a variety of ways to...
Curated OER
Compounding the Problem
Pupils sharpen their dictionary skills and their understanding of compound words in this plan. Tailor it to the grade level you teach by honing in on specific skills. For older learners, the plan suggests providing a word and having them...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Root-A-Word
In pairs, scholars draw cards, read the word, and identify its root. Learners place the card on a tree-themed worksheet to sort words by their roots.
Curated OER
Compound Word Game
Students create compound words in teams based on pictures they see on the board. In this compound word lesson plan, students have 5 minutes to come up with as many compound words as they can.
Curated OER
Compound Match
Second graders construct compound words on the playground or gym. They are given the opportunity to be actively involved in the learning process.
Curated OER
Dolch Words: #5 Compound Words
Learners explore the concept of compound words. For this compound word lesson, students use dolch word cards to create compound words.
Curated OER
Compound Word Frequency
First graders explore English by participating in a vocabulary activity. In this compound word lesson plan, 1st graders define what a "compound word" is and read several examples of them. Students utilize a stack of flash cards to...
Curated OER
Compound word fluency
First graders say compound words fluently. In this compound words lesson plan, 1st graders say compound words that are given to them on cards, and they try and say them automatically and as fast as they can.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Compound Words
Learners identify compound words in the story, "Once There Was A Bull." They work with a partner to discuss what makes up a compound word and participate in a game that helps them to understand the concept better. As the assessment...
Curated OER
Introduce Compound Words
First graders explore the concept of compound words. For this word recognition lesson, 1st graders discuss the concept and play a game that requires them to use word cards to form compound words.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
We Can Work It Out: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 7)
Listen, look, speak, and move are the routine steps of the English language development lessons found in a We Can Work It Out themed unit. Language proficiency is reinforced through picture cards, poems, and grand discussions about...
Curated OER
Compound Nouns 1
In this grammar worksheet, students learn that compound words are formed from two other nouns. Students analyze 28 nouns in 2 columns and match the words which create compound words.
Curated OER
Compound Nouns 3
In this grammar worksheet, students examine 2 columns of 28 words and match the words which combine to make 14 compound words.
Curated OER
United Words Stand
Students explore contractions and compound words by playing a whole-class game. In this reading lesson plan, students define compound words and contractions, and describe how they are formed. The game format should make this an exciting,...
Curated OER
Compound-Go-Round
Students make compound words by putting together cards with whole words on them. In this language arts lesson plan, students play a game where they match up words in an attempt to make compound words that make sense. A fun, meaningful...
Curated OER
Compound Word Bingo
In this bingo game worksheet, learners use the words after, bag, base, battle, bride, butter, chair, chatter, dock, eye, flower, grass, hedge, light, foot, chop, noon, pipes, ball, ship, groom, cup, man, box, yard, witness, pot, hopper,...