More Compound Words
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More Compound Words
More Compound Words worksheet for Grade 2: put two words together to make twelve compound words, then circle the real compound word beside look-alikes such as carpet and season. Every word is a real word, with an answer key.
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Compound WordsA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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Join two small words into one (sun + flower = sunflower), split compound words into their parts, and use the parts to work out the meaning.
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How to use this sheet
- Have the child draw a line between the two words in each compound word.
- Ask how the two words make the meaning, as in a doghouse is a house for a dog.
- Look for compound words in a book you read together afterwards.
Common mistakes
- Splitting a word that is not compound, such as "carpet" into car and pet.
- Writing a compound word as two words, such as "foot ball".
- Thinking every long word is a compound word.
