Create Classroom Vocabulary Fun With a Compound Word Game

Are you on the hunt for compound word activities? If so, you’re in the right place! We’ve been busy building new compound word printables and interactives to help you out!

To kick things off, we’re excited to introduce our brand new compound word card game—an interactive and engaging activity that challenges students to match word parts to form new compound words. This game encourages critical thinking, boosts vocabulary development, and reinforces spelling skills all at once!

How to Play Compound Word Match It!

Players are presented with a set of word cards, each containing a word part. The goal is to match word parts together to create complete compound words. Players take turns drawing cards from the deck and strategically combining word parts to form new words. The player with the most correctly formed compound words at the end of the game wins.

A complete set of directions and an answer key is included in the download.

Download and Print!

This resource is available as a printable PDF file as well as a fully editable Google Slides resource. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and select your file preference.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter Collaborator.

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Before you go, make sure you check out these fun compound word worksheets and games, too!

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