Read Compound Words: Find the Two Words
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Read Compound Words: Find the Two Words
A word reading worksheet for Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3. Twelve compound words such as sunset, notebook and lighthouse. Read each one and write the two words in it. 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.
Reviewed by Ms. Emily Bennett, Teacher and Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Teacher. How we check worksheets
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.
