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2nd - 5th Grade Compound Words Worksheets

Students will gain insight into the meaning of compound words as they break each word into its two different parts.

Creating Compound Words

Using a picture as a clue, kids put two words together to make a compound word for each item on this reading worksheet.

Word Addition: Compound Words 1

With the help of picture clues, kids will find two words that make a single compound word. Have your child put "sun" and "flower" together in this worksheet.

Word Addition: Compound Words 2

Kids will make compound words out of two smaller words. Make "gold" and "fish" into "goldfish in this fun compound words worksheet.

Word Addition: Compound Words 3

Challenge your beginning reader to practice making compound words! He'll match one set of words with another set to create a list of compound words.

Compound Words

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Practice spelling some common compound words with this spelling test and activity.

3rd Grade Spelling Test: Compound Words

In this fill-in-the-blanks grammar worksheet, students will use context clues to complete 10 sentences with the correct compound word.

Compound Words in Context

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Read the Word Clues

Give your students practice with an important fifth grade language arts skill: Combining words to form contractions and hyphenated compound words.

Pairing Up Words

Compound words are just words that are made by putting two smaller words together. With this worksheet, students will work backwards from definitions to guess the compound words and expand their vocabulary.

Guess the Compound Word

Learners will use their compound word know-how and creativity to create compound words and use them in a sentence.

Compound Words: Creating Words & Sentences

This football-themed word search is a great way to help score a touchdown in spelling and sports vocabulary!

Football Word Search

Learn how we make compound words with a helpful practice sheet! Your child will practice putting two words together to form a compound word.

Make Compound Words

Help your second grader with her vocabulary and compound words. She'll create some compound words, and break down some compound words!

Compound Words #4

Learners will read six sentences to identify the compound word, then use that word in a sentence of their own.

Identify & Use Compound Words

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!

Work on word-building with this fun activity that doubles as an English exercise.

Compound Word Puzzle

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

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

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

Word Combos

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

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

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

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

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