1st and 2nd Grade Compound Words Worksheets

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Does your little reader know how to identify a compound word? Give her a challenge with this fill-in-the-bubble style quiz.

In this worksheet, your child will explore this definition, by putting pairs of words together to make common compound words.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

This word-building worksheet gets your child to see the interesting connections between words. Explore suffixes in this wordplay worksheet.

Challenge your second grader to add up the picture clues to create their own compound words.

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

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

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