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Building Compound Words

A Kindergarten worksheet to help students understand the structure of compound words by combining two smaller words.

Kindergarten ELA GrammarLanguage and VocabularyLanguageCompound WordsStructure of Compound Words
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2 Short AnswerFill in the BlanksMatchingMultiple Choice

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.4.b

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KindergartenELACompound WordsVocabularyLanguage
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Building Compound Words

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A compound word is made when two smaller words are put together to make a new word. For example, 'sun' + 'flower' = 'sunflower'.

1. What two small words make up the compound word 'cupcake'?

Put the two small words together to make a compound word.

2. rain + bow =  

3. foot + ball =  

4. pan + cake =  

Draw a line to match the two small words that make a compound word.

5. tooth

 

a. boat

6. rain

 

b. brush

7. sail

 

c. coat

8. Which of these is a compound word?

a

table

b

butterfly

c

happy

d

jump

9. Draw a picture of a 'hotdog'.