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Compound Words: ball

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This vocabulary skills unit for grade 3 presents activities (use the words, write a sentence) in which students form compound words from two smaller words (football, ballpark). Presented in three levels of difficulty. Includes answer key.

Compound Words: home

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This vocabulary skills unit for grade 3 presents activities (complete a sentence, choose a word) in which students form compound words from two smaller words (homemade, homework). Presented in three levels of difficulty. Includes answer key.

Compound Words: inside/outside

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This vocabulary skills unit for grade 3 presents activities (circle the compound, rewrite each sentence) in which students form compound words from two smaller words and recognize that the first words in the compound can show opposite meanings (inside, outside). Presented in three levels of difficulty. Includes answer key.

The Vote

This two-page story on celebrating diversity is about Jamie, a girl who is confined to a wheelchair and running for student council office. The unit includes four activity pages on comprehension, using base words/prefixes, compound words, comparing Jamie/me in a Venn diagram, & completing a bar graph. (Find other units by searching "Diversity 2-3.")

Word Play: Complete the Word

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This vocabulary skills activity for grade 3 presents a one-page word play in which students add the same small word to three words in each set to make compound words (fire + place, wild, wood). Includes answer key.

Word Play: Compound Sort

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This vocabulary skills activity for grade 3 presents a one-page word play in which students create compound words sorted into four categories headed by "ball," "head," "down," and "back." Includes answer key.

Word Play: The Mighty Pen

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This vocabulary skills activity for grade 3 presents a one-page word play in which students use clues to finish words that contain the word "pen." Includes answer key.

Geography Compound Words

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A hands-on vocabulary-building center based on the concept that a compound word is made up of two smaller words that, in this case, relate to geography (e.g., earth + quake = earthquake). Includes cover sheet, teacher directions, student directions for combining words and reading the new definition, task cards, activity sheet, and answer key.

Connect Two! (compound words)

A language skills activity in which students look at two pictures, combine the words for them into a compound word, and draw a related picture

Making Big Words

Activities to recognize and create compound words.

Terrific Twos (compound words)

A vocabulary exercise in which students put two pictures/words together to make one compound word and then write the new word

What's in the Box? (compound words)

A one-page exercise in which students look at a picture of various items and then use two word lists to create compound words that name the items

Word Builder (compound words)

A vocabulary exercise in which students use pictures with words (flower, fish, rain) and build as many compound words as possible. Answers will vary, but see the answer key for suggestions.

Compound Words

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This one-page activity demonstrates how to create and use compound words (a word made up of two smaller words). The page contains a rule box with examples and activities in which students create and write compound words.

Packing Up (compound words)

This literacy unit presents a short story about boys packing their belongings from a week at summer camp, followed by comprehension questions and two activity pages in which students locate, write, and create compound words.