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My students get super excited when they find compound words in their reading. You could pair students up or put them in teams to find as many compound words as they can in a given amount of time. I don't spend too much time on compound words because they pick up on it pretty quickly. The biggest thing they take away from it is that if they can spell the words that make up the compound word, they can spell the entire compound word. Have fun!

2007-03-25 10:57:14 · answer #1 · answered by elizabeth_ashley44 7 · 0 0

One follow up lesson could be a mention of slang. Because the English language is so generative, such as compound words often are, slang words are the most generative in the English language.

Good Luck....

2007-03-24 20:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by Teacher Man 6 · 0 0

Have students generate their own compound words. Primary students love to make silly compound words. You can provide them with two lists of nouns. They have to pick one from each list to make a compound word. Have them share it with a partner.

2007-03-25 06:58:51 · answer #3 · answered by elljay 3 · 0 0

Scour a well-known (to the students) text. Let them go on a word hunt on each page. You give them clues: on page 4 this word is a place to play", they look for and record "playground".

2007-03-26 00:16:13 · answer #4 · answered by bandit 6 · 0 0

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