Compound words worksheets
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A compound word is two words joined into one new meaning: sun + flower = sunflower.
Three grades, each its own sheet. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.
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1st grade
A compound word is two small words snapped together to make a new one: sun + set = sunset. First graders build them like blocks, reading each half and then the whole.
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2nd grade Core grade
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Compound words snap two words together to make a new one: sunflower, backpack, doorbell. Second graders build them from parts and pick the compound whose parts match the meaning, which turns vocabulary into a puzzle they can solve.
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3rd grade
Third graders work with less obvious compounds (watershed, quarterback, landmark) and use the parts as meaning clues: if you know water and shed, you can reason toward what a watershed does. That parts-to-meaning habit is a genuine reading superpower.
More on word relationships
- Analogies 4th–8th
- Antonyms 2nd–4th
- Connotation and denotation 5th–8th
- Dictionary guide words 2nd–5th
- Homophones 2nd–5th
- Multiple-meaning words 2nd–5th
- Opposites K–1st
- Picture compound words 1st–2nd
- Shades of meaning K–3rd
- Spatial and time-order words 3rd
- Synonyms 2nd–4th
- Word sorts (categories) K–2nd
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