Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Closed Compound Words
This page explains closed compound words, one word compounds formed by two words, and provides examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound words; it defines the term, provides a list of examples of both hyphenated and non-hyphenated compound words, explains the rules for when to hyphenate them, and provides examples. It also...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: What Makes a Compound Word?
Discover how to break down compound words when you check out this informative site. Feedback is offered throughout this interactive lesson.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Compound Words
This site offers lists of compound words (or teachers can import their own lists), student assistance to learn the words, and a spelling test to assess their learning. It also provides printable lists and worksheets.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Compound Words: When to Hyphenate
Learn about the three kinds of compound words, closed compounds, hyphenated compounds, and open compounds. This tutorial offers an easy way to figure out when to hyphenate compound words if you cannot find the compound in the dictionary....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Overview of Compound Words
This resource has two sections: Overview of Contractions, and video demonstration. It provides downloads of the following: lesson plan, lesson materials, word list, and video transcript.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Compound Nouns and Modifiers
An interactive exercise consisting of a paragraph with forty uses of compound nouns and modifiers. Students decide if each compound is written correctly or incorrectly.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Plurals and Spelling Rules
The rules for spelling plural words and using them properly in English are made fun and easy with this BBC Skillswise worksheet for students.
abcteach
Abcteach: Spelling
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate worksheets that help students practice spelling with tricky vowels and letters, as well as, homophones, compound words and more. Several activities include assessments at the end.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Fun Exercises for Compound Words
This article focuses on exercises for teaching compound words including compound word exercises, a list of root words to create many different compound words, links to compound word games, and interactive online games.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Compound Words
For this lesson the learners will be introduced to compound words through the use of a multimedia presentation. Students will then form compound words through the use of teacher-made puzzles. Finally, the learners will participate in a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Compound Words
Students will listen to the story Once There Was A Bull (frog) and identify the compound words in the story, then work with a partner to think of additional examples of compound words.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Reading: The Sounds of English
Learn about the different sounds in English. For adult learners.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hyphenation Conventions
This video [0:48) discusses how hyphens indicate specific nouns from compound words. Without them, they could refer to completely different things! Know when and how to use them.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Slimezilla vs. the Compound Words
Use your knowledge of compound words to defeat the evil Slimezilla! In this game, kids will practice combining individual words into compound words, in order to form the only hero that can save the day... and win the game!
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Compound Word Puzzle
Young scholars will form compound words by putting puzzles together.
Other
Ki Co4 School English: Compound Words
This is a self-scoring matching game in which pairs of words are matched to form compound words.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The en Dash: Lesson 1
A tutorial about the en-dash and how to use it properly. Audio [1:30] and a three-question quiz are available.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Spelling Words Within Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Objective: Students will identify short words within longer words as an aid to spelling.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compound Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students put small words together to create compound words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compound Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is intended for grade 3, but can be used with grades 1,2, and 4. Students are introduced to compound words and have numerous opportunities for interactive practice. This flipchart also...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compound Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used as a center or class lesson to practice making compound words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compound Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains activities to learn and understand how compound words are made and used.