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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Compound Words Educational Resources

This Education.com exercise makes it clear to students how to break down compound and hyphenated words correctly.


Compound Words 1

For additional practice, have students complete this exercise that will give them mastery over compound and hyphenated words.


Compound Words 2

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

Creating Compound Words

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.

Compound Words

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

Word Addition: Compound Words 3

Give your students practice with an important fifth grade language arts skill: Combining words to form contractions and hyphenated compound words.

Pairing Up Words

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.

Word Addition: Compound Words 2

Learners will use their compound word know-how and creativity to create compound words and use them in a sentence.

Compound Words: Creating Words & Sentences

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

Make Compound Words

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

Word Addition: Compound Words 1

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

Compound Words: Match, Meaning, and Draw

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

Football Word Search

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

Compound Words #4

If your students need practice identifying the roots and affixes of a word to decode the meaning, then this worksheet is for you!

Look Inside!

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.

Compound Words: Word to Word

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

Compound Words #3

In this fill-in-the-blanks grammar worksheet, students will use context clues to complete 10 sentences with the correct compound word.

Compound Words in Context

Give your students practice combining words to create hyphenated compound words and contractions.

Word Combos

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

Compound Word Puzzle

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

Choose the Compound Word #1

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.

Read the Word Clues

Learners will read six sentences to identify the compound word, then use that word in a sentence of their own.

Identify & Use Compound Words

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

Compound Word Balloons

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

Compound Word Meaning

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.

Guess the Compound Word

Compound words come to life in this fun worksheet that invites children to create an illustration to represent each of six compound words.

Compound Creations

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.

Compound Picnic

Want to clear up compound words? Challenge your second grader to decode and add up these images to create brand new, compound words!

Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #11

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

Compound Words Game #1

Wordsmiths will enjoy this word-building activity that focuses on suffixes. Challenge your child to find a common suffix between three words in this worksheet.

Compound Word Puzzle 2

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