Compound Words Skyscraper and More

Print the page and read the directions with your child: Join the two words and write the compound word. Then write the letter of the picture that matches it. When they finish, check the work together with the answer key.

A note shows how a compound word joins two small words, as in sun and flower. Six word pairs follow: sky and scraper, door and bell, tool and box, wheel and barrow, sand and paper, and work and bench, with six lettered pictures to match. The directions on the page read: Join the two words and write the compound word. Then write the letter of the picture that matches it. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade affixes and compound words, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with write compound words. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

The two smaller words often explain the big one. A toolbox is a box for tools, and a doorbell is a bell by the door.

Yes. Both sheets have an answer key.

Suffixes pages take words apart and build them, splitting words like jumped into jump and ed and matching ful, less, er and est to their meanings. Identify Suffixes pages ask your child to choose the suffix that fits, like ed or ing, er or est, or ful or less, in sentences and a short zoo story.

Prefixes has your child underline the prefix and circle the base word inside an already-complete word, a labeling task. Identify Prefixes goes a step further: the word is missing its prefix inside a full sentence, and your child has to choose the correct one from two options based on what the sentence means. Labeling comes first, then choosing correctly in context.

Both skills are about noticing that a longer, unfamiliar-looking word is often built from smaller, familiar pieces. Compound words combine two whole words (sunlight from sun and light), while prefixes and suffixes attach a smaller piece to a base word (unhappy from un and happy). Once a child sees English this way, long words stop feeling scary and start feeling solvable.

It's actually a good sign. A word like unkindful means your child has correctly learned that un means not and ful means full of, and is combining two real rules they've picked up separately. The rules just haven't learned their limits yet. Point out that kindful isn't a real word to begin with, and the mix-up usually clears up fast.