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Elementary School Compound Words Resources : Page 2

On this reading worksheet, kids connect words in the first column to words in the second column to make compound words. Then they write the words.

Compound Words: Word to Word

Have your first graders conquered the compound word? It's time to find out! Use this quick reading assessment to evaluate your students’ abilities to read compound words, such as sunflower, bookcase, and cowboy.

Reading Compound Words

Use this fun ocean-themed worksheet to help your students understand compound words!

Compound Word Puzzles

Give your students practice combining words to create hyphenated compound words and contractions.

Word Combos

Vocabulary development helps second graders advance their reading and writing skills. This guided lesson uses exercises and techniques targeted to building vocabulary. Kids will be tasked with using descriptive adjectives, distinguishing between similar verbs and adjectives, and using context clues to determine the meaning of a word phrase. For more vocabulary boosters, check out the worksheets that align with this lesson.

Vocabulary 1

Learn all about compound words with this worksheet. Your second grader will match two words together to form a compound word.

Compound Words #3

Students daydreaming of a sunny day outside? Use this worksheet to practice making compound words in a picnic context. Students will read the sentence frames, then they'll create compound words that best complete the sentences.

Compound Picnic

In this worksheet, learners will practice using context clues to find the meaning of eight compound words.

Compound Word Meaning

This year, third graders will be taking their vocabulary to new heights and exploring such concepts as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. This guided lesson in vocabulary and figurative language offers clear and practical definitions of new words and expressions, along with plenty of practice opportunities. Understanding vocabulary and figurative language deepens reading comprehension skills and enriches the writing process.

Word Meaning 1

Find all of the words relating to the sea in the word search, circle them, and make sure to cross them off the list.

Word Search for Kids: Under the Sea

Learners will hone their grammar and vocabulary skills as they identify the compound word in each of 10 problems.

Choose the Compound Word #1

This worksheet will help children identify compound words, by asking them to color-code the words on the page.

Compound Word Coloring

Locate and color the compound words to reveal a hidden picture.

Color the Compound Words

Want to clear up compound words? Challenge your second grader to decode and add up these images to create brand new, compound words!

Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #11

Do some fun wordplay with this suffix worksheet. Kids will add a suffix to the end of three different words to show that they have a linguistic connection.

Compound Word Puzzle 3

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Compound Word Art

Compound words come to life in this fun worksheet that invites children to create an illustration to represent each of six compound words.

Compound Creations

Challenge your child to to identify compound words, contractions, and abbreviations in a short story.

Grammar Basics: Compound Words, Contractions, & Abbreviations

This unit not only builds students' vocabulary, it also enables students to explore how words are related, in meaning, sound and construction. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will also learn strategies we use to shorten words and phrases like acronyms and abbreviations.

Vocabulary 2

Children will enjoy pairing two socks together to create a compound word in this vocabulary-boosting worksheet.

Compound Words Game #2

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Vocabulary Focus.

Vocabulary Cards: Vocabulary Focus

Kids write words according to the pictures, then match them up to make compound words in this 2nd grade reading worksheet.

Compound Word Match

Children will enjoy pairing two balloons together to create a compound word in this vocabulary-boosting worksheet.

Compound Words Game #1

Compound words are much like addition, but with words instead of numbers. Can your second grader add up the words on this worksheet?

Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #12

Words are the wondrous building blocks in language. This unit increases students’ word knowledge by introducing more challenging vocabulary and exploring how words are related. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will get to explore and create fun literary devices such as similes, idioms and metaphors.

Word Meaning 2

Wordsmiths will enjoy this word-building activity that focuses on suffixes. Challenge your child to find a common suffix between three words in this worksheet.

Compound Word Puzzle 2

Fish + bow = fishbow...? No, that's not right! Engage your young learners in understanding and forming compound words with this fun worksheet. Students will use words from a word bank to create compound words in this word structure activity.

Make Your Own Compound Words

If your second grader's slipping in spelling, get them to complete this worksheet by brainstorming the missing half of each compound word.

Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #9

Compound words are like puzzles. In this worksheet, your students will match words to create compound words.

Compound Word Balloons

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Vocabulary Focus.

Glossary: Vocabulary Focus

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