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Compound Words Digital Learning Activity

Updated: 04 May 2024

Use a digital learning activity to help your students practise identifying, reading, and creating compound words.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 2 - 3

Curriculum

VC2E2LY04

Use phoneme–grapheme correspondence knowledge to read and write words of one or more syllables with vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant blends and silent letters (phonic knowledge) <ul> <li>reading words with digraphs where one letter is not pronounced (for example, ‘knife’ and ‘thumb’) and using them in writing</li> <li>providing the sounds for less common sound–letter matches (for example, ‘ight’) and using them in writing</li> <li>reading words with vowel digraphs (‘ee’, ‘oo’, ‘ai’, ‘ay’ and ‘ea’)</li> </ul>
VC2E2LY05

Use knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to read and write words whose spelling is not completely predictable from their sounds, including high-frequency words <ul> <li>using known words and knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to write unknown words, for example ‘one’, ‘once’, ‘only’ and ‘lone’</li> <li>using context to read the correct word when an unknown word has more than one plausible pronunciation</li> </ul>
VC2E3LY03

Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme correspondences, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns <ul> <li>reading and writing more complex words with consonant digraphs and consonant blends, for example ‘shrinking’, ‘against’ and ‘rocket’</li> <li>reading and writing consonant digraphs representing different sounds, for example ‘machine’, ‘change’ and ‘school’</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Compound Words Digital Learning Activity

Updated: 04 May 2024

Use a digital learning activity to help your students practise identifying, reading, and creating compound words.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 2 - 3

Use a digital learning activity to help your students practise identifying, reading, and creating compound words.

Let’s Dive Into Compound Word Digital Resources!

Get ready to dive into another round of engaging compound word activities from Teach Starter! This Google Interactive Learning Center is ready to use, and it provides students with an interactive way to practise word building with a variety of examples of compound words. In this interactive slide activity, students are provided with a variety of digital learning activities to learn about compound words. Some activities included are:

Identify and type a compound word when given an image prompt
Form a compound word using two images and an image prompt
Sort examples of compound words and non-examples
Identify compound words in text and mark them
Use compound words to write sentences

Students will click and drag, type compound words, use them in sentences, and more!

This resource is useful in direct instruction lessons or as an independent learning activity to build children’s understanding of compound words.

Grab Your Compound Word Digital Activity!

This downloadable teaching resource is available as an Interactive PowerPoint or Google Slides Activity. To get your new resource, click the dropdown arrow on the download button. You will be prompted to make your own copy. From there, assign it to your students in Google Classroom or another LMS and put them to work!

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

Even More Compound Word Handouts and Activities

Don’t stop there! We have even more ways to help your students learn to read and identify compound words and compound nouns. Make sure you check out these printable compound word activities before you go.

Curriculum

VC2E2LY04

Use phoneme–grapheme correspondence knowledge to read and write words of one or more syllables with vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant blends and silent letters (phonic knowledge) <ul> <li>reading words with digraphs where one letter is not pronounced (for example, ‘knife’ and ‘thumb’) and using them in writing</li> <li>providing the sounds for less common sound–letter matches (for example, ‘ight’) and using them in writing</li> <li>reading words with vowel digraphs (‘ee’, ‘oo’, ‘ai’, ‘ay’ and ‘ea’)</li> </ul>
VC2E2LY05

Use knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to read and write words whose spelling is not completely predictable from their sounds, including high-frequency words <ul> <li>using known words and knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to write unknown words, for example ‘one’, ‘once’, ‘only’ and ‘lone’</li> <li>using context to read the correct word when an unknown word has more than one plausible pronunciation</li> </ul>
VC2E3LY03

Understand how to apply knowledge of phoneme–grapheme correspondences, syllables, and blending and segmenting to fluently read and write multisyllabic words with more complex letter patterns <ul> <li>reading and writing more complex words with consonant digraphs and consonant blends, for example ‘shrinking’, ‘against’ and ‘rocket’</li> <li>reading and writing consonant digraphs representing different sounds, for example ‘machine’, ‘change’ and ‘school’</li> </ul>

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