Grab and Go Compound Word Activities!

Are you on the hunt for new, no-prep teaching resources to help you teach your students about compound words? If so, you’re in the right place! The Teach Starter team has been hard at work creating new literacy activities, worksheets, and games for your students to use when learning about combining words.

Let’s get you up to speed on compound words. A compound word combines two or more words to make a new word or phrase with a new meaning. There are three kinds: open, closed, and hyphenated. Open ones are like “living room,” closed ones are like “doghouse,” and hyphenated ones are like “mother-in-law.” Learning to navigate this web of words is essential for students to use these words correctly and build higher-level vocabulary skills.

Mash Up Words to Make New Compound Words!

Get ready to give your students a fun, new literacy station activity with a printable compound word clip card activity. With these compound word clip cards, students will identify a pair of images and then demonstrate which new compound word is formed by clipping a clothespin to the correct answer. 

This resource download includes 28 fun clip cards to help your students mash up words and make new compound words. Draw a star behind the correct answer on each card before placing it in a learning center to make it self-checking.

Download, Print, & Begin Combining Words!

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource. 

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

Putting Words Together Has Never Been So Fun!

Don’t stop there! We have even more ways to make teaching compound words more fun! Make sure you check out these printable compound word activities before you go.

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