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Compound words are words which are created from two, or sometimes more, individual words that, when joined together, create a new word. Studying compound words is fun, helps kids understand the language, builds an interest in words and will help prepare students to learn prefixes, suffixes and word roots. Want to find some lists of compound words?
SpellingCity.com has a simple way that you can find lists. Use our Find A List page, type in compound words and you will see nine pages of compound word lists! Next week, there will probably be more! Here are five lists of compound words to help you get started: Compound Word List
Compound Word Day! Compound words can be surprisingly fun for students to study. Don’t miss this opportunity to really engage your students. One school has annual Compound Word Day! Each student needs to come to school wearing at least fifty compound words! Sound impossible? I thought so too, but the proof is in the pudding. See the picture at the bottom of this page. The average number of compound words in the first grade class was seventy-five! Think hairpin, fireman, shoehorn, keyboard, horseshoe, popcorn, and raindrop. A great hands-on learning activity to help kids see how compound words are put together is with images. For example, for the word keyboard you can find a key and a board and, by placing them together, the word keyboard is created!! Classroom Compound Word Games
For a fun group classroom activity, you can split the class in half and have a compound word race. From each half, you pick a student and whisper a compound word to him or her. These students each get half the board to draw their compound word with their team shouting out their guesses. You can make this a relay race with each student getting a chance to draw at the board. Three Forms of Compound Words. There are three forms of compound words: Closed form: Two words are joined together to create a new meaning. EXAMPLES: firefly, softball, redhead, keyboard, makeup, notebook; Hyphenated form: The words are joined together by a hyphen. EXAMPLES: daughter-in-law, over-the-counter, six-year-old; Open form: The words are open but when read together, a new meaning is formed. EXAMPLES: post office, real estate, full moon, half sister. Compound Word Day 2009  |
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