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Looking for a fun way to teach kids about compound words?! These picture-only compound word puzzles are a memorable way to show how two words can be combined to make a brand new word. They’re great to use as a whole class lesson, guided reading activity, literacy center or homeschool game.
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What Are Compound Words?
At this stage, kids already know that words can be broken down into sounds (like c-a-t), but compound words teach them that some words can be broken down into parts that have different meanings. This is important as more complex words are introduced into their reading and writing.
Learning about compound words will help kids understand:
- Prefixes: such as de- (which means “opposite”).
For example, demystify and debark.
- Suffixes: such as –able (which means ‘”can be done”). For example, comfortable, adorable.
- Word roots: many of our words originated in Greek or Latin. For example, audi- means ‘”hear” in Latin, and we have audience and audible in English.
There are three types of compound words:
- Closed (for example, fingerprint)
- Hyphenated (son-in-law)
- Open (post office)
These puzzles are all closed form compound words. Kids love them because they can take two simple words they know how to write and create a much longer, much more impressive looking word by putting them together!
Getting Ready
I downloaded the printable (below) and printed it onto cardstock. Then, I cut out the individual pieces and popped them into a small Ziploc bag to keep them all together.
(You can also laminate the pieces for extra durability if you want.)
Compound Word Puzzles
At first, the puzzle pieces were put out randomly and the children naturally picked them up and named the objects they saw.
Once they realized they were puzzle pieces, however, they began trying to put them together.
Between the clues presented by the pictures themselves and the shapes of each puzzle, they soon worked out that they needed to combine smaller words together to create the larger words.
For some of the children it was a real ‘aha’ moment when they suddenly understood how compound words worked. Of course, then they decided to ignore the puzzle shapes and try to make silly words from the pieces they had. “Earfly” was a bit of a favorite!
Extending The Activity
While some of the kids enjoyed these puzzles just as they were, others wanted to write, so they jotted down the words as they went. They also continued the math flavor of the cards by writing them as equations: butter + fly = butterfly!
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FREE Printable Compound Word Puzzles Game for Kids
1st grade • 1st Grade Language arts • 2nd grade • 2nd Grade Language Arts • Compound Words • FREE Printables • Kindergarten • Kindergarten Language Arts • Language ArtsSeptember 18, 2021
by Beth Gorden
Help children visualize, understand, and learn compound words for kids with these super cute, free printable compound word puzzles.
These compound word picture puzzles are such a fun, hands-on learning activity for pre-k, kindergarten, first graders, and 2nd grade students. Simply print the compound word games printable pdf to teach with a clever educational activity.
Compound word puzzles
Help kids visualize how two words become one compound word with a completely different meaning. This free Compound Word Puzzles has over 26 different compound words puzzles to make. This is such a fun early reading, literacy, and spelling activity for preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler you will love this activity for summer learning, extra practice, literacy center for classrooms, or any other supplemental activity you can use.
Compound words puzzle
Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<.
The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie.
Compound word picture puzzles
These compound word puzzle activity is low prep and the the printable pdf file contains both color or black and white versions to save you on printer ink costs.
Compound word games printable
Now print the pages in color or black and white on cardstock.
- Black and White Version – let students color the puzzles with crayons, markers, and colored pencils as you teach them how the two words at the bottom separately mean something, but together as ac compound word mean something else.
- Color Version – laminate for durability so you can practice again and again with these handy compound word puzzle.
Compound word picture puzzles
Finally, Cut along the dotted lines to separate each puzzle into two parts.
Compound word puzzle
For this compound word activities simply give your children a stack of puzzle pieces to put together.
- back + pack = backpack
- band + aid = bandaid
- basket + ball = basketball
- butter + fly = butterfly
- cook + book = cookbook
- cup + cake = cupcake
- dragon + fly = dragonfly
- foot + print = footprint
- base + ball = baseball
- ground + hog = groundhog
- hot + dog = hotdog
- lady + bug = ladybug
- pine + apple = pineapple
- rain + bow = rainbow
- sand + castle = sandcastle
- snow + flake = snowflake
- snow + globe = snowglobe
- snow + man = snowman
- star + fish = starfish
- sun + glasses = sunglasses
- super + hero = superhero
- tooth + brush = toothbrush
- tooth + paste = toothpaste
- pass + port = passport
- pop + corn = popcorn
- rain + storm = rainstorm
Compound words game pdf
Point out that each piece has a complete word at the bottom that if put with the other complete word makes a new compound word.
Compound word puzzles printable
When the compound word games printable have been matched, encourage kids to write the new words on the free printable included in the pack to practice making words, spelling, and handwriting.
Compound words game printable
HINT: For younger students, or students that are just learning the concept, start out with fewer puzzles so their are fewer choices to confuse them.
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