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1st - 5th Grade Compound Words Resources : Page 2

If your students need practice identifying the roots and affixes of a word to decode the meaning, then this worksheet is for you!

Look Inside!

This worksheet will teach your child how to scrunch two words together to get one compound word.

Compound Words: One Word from Two

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

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

Color the Compound Words

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

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

Compound Words #3

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

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

Compound Word Balloons

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

Compound Word Coloring

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Three Legged Compound Word Race

Compound words are made up of two separate words. Kids create compound words to feed Roly in this matching game.

Compound Word Fish

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

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

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

Can your second grader pick the correct compound words to complete these sentences?

Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #13

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

Grammar Basics: Compound Words, Contractions, & Abbreviations

Children will draw from a word bank to form five new compound words, then write and illustrate their meaning.

Compound Words: Match, Meaning, and Draw

Teach your little one a few new sight words that are all about household items. This activity will help her learn the different parts of a plant.

Parts of a Plant Activity

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

Compound Words Game #2

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

Compound Word Match

Want to give your second grader practice identifying compound words? This colorful, fill-in-the-blank worksheet's sure to do the trick.

Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #8

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

Compound Words Game #3

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

Can your second grader complete these sentences by deciding which words are compound, and which aren't?

Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #5

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

Compound Creations

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

Compound Words Game #1

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

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.

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