Compound Words - Weekly Language Lessons - Intermediate Grades

We focus on one topic each week during our language arts lessons. This pack provides activities to do each day of the week as students learn about the topic. We glue all of these pages into our language notebooks (which are spiral notebooks) each week. I reduce the pages 85% when I copy them.

Day One:

We begin by reading a picture book. We use the book Once there was a Bull…Frog by Rick Walton. You can buy the book OR watch it read aloud on youtube.

Reading (or listening) to the book gives kids an idea of what we are going to be talking about this week – compound words! Fill in the chart based on the compound words in the picture book.

Day Two:

Play a matching game with a partner or group of four at a table making compound words using the cards provided. A blank card is also included. Create a mini-poster on a sheet of 9 x 12 white paper of all the words your group forms! I give students about 20 minutes for this activity. We post their compound word posters in the room! They can add their list to their language notebook! The word cards can be added to the notebook by placing them in an envelope and gluing the envelope into the notebook.

Day Three:

Share the compound words poster with the students. Have them come up with a definition for compound words in their own words and fill in some of their favorite compound words on the chart with their own definition for compound words.

Day Four:

Use compound words in writing! There is a fill in the blank story to write first! Then have students write their own short story trying to use at least 10 compound words. We make these silly stories! Kids can illustrate their stories, too! We also highlight the compound words in the stories. These are also posted up in the classroom so kids can read the other stories. We bind them together in a class book later.

Day Five:

Give students the quiz using compound words. As an enrichment piece, you can also show them portmanteau words, which are two words that are blended together. I give students time to find some of these words using the Internet and then let them make a mini-poster showing some different examples of them.

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