compound words and poems???

Question

I want to create a fun lesson plan that will teach my grade two students about "compound words." I wanted to start the lesson by introducing a poem or an enrichment short story that contains compound words. I have been searching for some but my efforts deemed fruitless. Do you know any websites where I could find these enrichment poems or short stories that contain compound words. Or, do u have any that you would like to share with me. Thanks a million for your help.

Answer 1

I use a hand game to teach my second graders about compound words, and they love it. I learned it at a conference with Jonette Downing:
Teach it like this the first time:
Double, double
This, this,
Double, double
That, that
Double this
Double that
Double, Double
This, that

Substitute the word "this" for the 1st word from the compound and "that" for the second word.
When you say "double" you use closed fists to hit against your partner's closed fists, when you say "this" you hit your palms together, and when you say "that" you hit the backs of your hands together.

Answer 2

Compound Word Poem

Answer 3

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compound words and poems???
I want to create a fun lesson plan that will teach my grade two students about "compound words." I wanted to start the lesson by introducing a poem or an enrichment short story that contains compound words. I have been searching for some but my efforts deemed fruitless. Do you know any...

Answer 4

I can't think of any short stories or poems appropriate for second graders that contain compound words. If no one else comes up with some, what about writing your own story or poem using compound words that would be familiar to your students. There are some obvious ones like lunchbox, playground, baseball, and schoolhouse, but there are also less obvious ones that most second graders would know, like watermelon, strawberry, shirtdress, sweatshirt, shoetree, flowerpot, haircut, ponytail, teacup, coffeepot, teapot, and teabag. You can even include some like "underwear" or "nightgown" that might elicit giggles from the little ones. You could even talk about the word "kindergarten" which came from two German words--"kinder" which is child and "garten" which I think if garden. (NOTE: The Yahoo spell checker said that shirtdress should be either hyphenated or two words, but my M/S Word spell checker did not mark it as an error.)

Answer 5

Butterflies by Sara Booth

Butterflies are flying up and down
fly up to the sky and to the ground.
Butterflies are dancing all around
flutter, flutter, flutter not a sound.

Jack Be Nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jumped over the candlestick.