COMPOUND WORDS - WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWER KEY

These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Vocabulary – Compound Words. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.

Objectives of this lesson are:

• To recall the terms associated with compound words.
• To classify the compound words based on their form, class and pattern.
• To apply form, class and pattern to recognise compound words.
• To analyse the use of compound words.
• To evaluate the use of compound words.
• To create new patterns of compound words.

After attempting these activities students will be able to:

• Match the meaning with the terms associated with compound words.
• Classify the compound words as closed, open and hyphenated.
• Identify compound words as nouns, verbs and adjectives.
• Form compound words to use them as nouns, verbs and adjectives.
• Use error identification to find the correct use of compound words.
• Use compound words to name nouns, describe actions and modify nouns.

This download includes:

• EXERCISE 1: Match the terms (1-7) with their meaning (A-G). Write the letters in the space.
• EXERCISE 2: Watch the video – Compound Words – to answer the following questions.

1. Define compound words with examples.
2. List compound word patterns with examples.
3. Read the given sentence and identify the compound words.
4. Read the given story and identify the compound words.

• EXERCISE 3: Give an example each for each of the compound word patterns.
• EXERCISE 4: Identify the compound words from the given examples.
• EXERCISE 5: Match each word in the first column (1-26) with one in the second column (A-Z) to make a compound word.
• EXERCISE 6: Join the words of first two pictures (E.g. 1A+1B) to form the compound word of the third picture (E.g. 1C).
• EXERCISE 7: Write a compound word for each pair of pictures.
• EXERCISE 8: Which two words make the compound word that is shown in the picture?
• EXERCISE 9: Check the right compound word that matches with the picture.
• EXERCISE 10: Complete each of the sentences with a compound word formed from the given picture.
• EXERCISE 11: Identify the pattern of the compound words.
• EXERCISE 12: Identify the compound words in the given sentences.
• EXERCISE 13: Use the clues to work out the compound words.
• EXERCISE 14: Identify the compound words as closed, open or hyphenated.
• EXERCISE 15: Fill in the blanks with relevant compound words.
• EXERCISE 16: Identify the compound words as nouns, verbs or adjectives.
• EXERCISE 17: Identify the sentences that contain badly-formed compound words.
• EXERCISE 18: Attempt any one of the activities to demonstrate your mastery in using compound words in writing.
• EXERCISE 19: Work out the open compound words using the below words and the co-ordinates.
• EXERCISE 20: Create closed compound words using below words and write the grid references next to them.
• EXERCISE 21: Work out six compound words each with the listed base words.
• EXERCISE 22: Choose a correct compound word for each sentence.
• EXERCISE 23: Complete each of the sentences with a compound word formed from the words in the brackets.
• EXERCISE 24: Complete the sentences with suitable suspended compound words. Take the clues from the brackets.
• EXERCISE 25: Think of a suitable compound word to match each definition.

Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom:

• To challenge early finishers
• For effective tutoring
• As ESL stations and sub tubs
• As holiday work and homework
• For small group collaborations
• For an end of unit assessments 
• For reinforcement and enrichment

More Vocabulary Resources by the same Author:

• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Modal Verbs
• Determiners
• Connectives
• Compound Adjectives
• Compound Words
• Word Order Adjectives
• Articles
• Imperative Verbs
• Adjectives - Degrees of Comparison

This is what teachers say about these resources:

• O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN BY WALT WHITMAN - TASKS AND EXERCISES - Comment from Theresa Ciardella - "I used this for a poetry class and it was helpful. The format was a bit old and a little hard to navigate but that may be my fault. It was very complete in its detailed analysis!" Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied)
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• PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES: 20 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Comment from Jennifer Walters: "This was helpful practice for my students learning prepositional phrases." Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• ADVERB PHRASE OR ADVERBIAL PHRASE - WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWER KEY - Comment from Jennifer Walters: "This was helpful practice for my students learning adverbial phrases." Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
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• THE NECKLACE - STORY COMPREHENSION - TASKS AND EXERCISES - Comment from Natoria Kennell Foster: "I LOVED this resource. I purchased it as I neared the end of my teaching of "The Necklace," so we did not use all of the activities, but the ones I used were great. I am definitely pulling from this if I teach this story next year." Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• INFERRING MEANING WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Comment from Patrice Thornton: "My students benefited from this resource during speech therapy sessions." Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied)
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• VERBAL PHRASES: 14 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Comment from ELLPro: "My students had a good time interacting with this resource thank you!" Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied)
• HYPHENS AND DASHES - PUNCTUATION: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - comment from Heather Landry: "My students enjoyed this lesson. They weren't well versed on hyphens and dashes before, but these resources helped change that." Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• NOUN PHRASES: 20 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS from ELLPro. Comment: "My students had a good time interacting with this resource thank you!" Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied)
• ADVERTISEMENT DESIGN TASK CARDS AND EXERCISES - Comment from Margie Batt: "Well thought out quality resource that aligned with my classroom strategies." Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• IRONY WORKSHEETS AND TASK CARDS - Comment from Cheryl Tilles: "Very helpful during our study of irony. The task cards offer great practice." Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• ADVERBIAL PHRASES: 17 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Patrick Howard: As we stepped into remote learning I was looking for ways for my students to interact with the parts of sentences at home. These worksheets really helped to solidify their working knowledge of adverbials and prepositional phrases, and the role they play in sentences. Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)
• PROOFREADING WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Milloni Shah: Great proofreading practice for my students. Rating: 4/5 (very satisfied)
• PARTS OF SPEECH WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - Courtney Flournoy: A great way to teach the language standards. Rating: 5/5 (extremely satisfied)

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