Word Study - Compound Words
November 24th 2007 07:03
Compound Words - page 4
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Compound Words - page 4.
Notes for teachers– Compound Words (for more advanced readers)
Parents/Carers/Tutors adjust the activity to suit your circumstances.
This activity introduces/consolidates compound words.
Children love studying words. A compound word is made up of two smaller words.
Reading the story “Twelve Brave Seamen” will give the children an interesting activity to search for compound words. This activity has a more difficult reading vocabulary than “The Twins’ Birthday”.
• Make sure the children understand what a compound word is before they attempt the activity.
• Decide whether the children will work individually or in pairs. Perhaps they could work in pairs to read the story and help each other find the compound words and then each child write the compound words on her/his own sheet of paper.
Extra Activities:
The story “Twelve Brave Seamen” could be revisited to observe/consolidate where speech marks are used when writing a story. It is beneficial to bring this to children’s attention as often as possible.
What happens next? It would be a fun exercise to complete the story.
Compound Words - page 5
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Compound Words - page 5.
Compound Words
Read the story called “Twelve Brave Seamen”. As you read underline any compound words you find.
When you are sure you have underlined all the compound words write them neatly on the lines below. Write each compound word once, even if it is used more than once in the story.
Compound Words - page 6
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Compound Words - page 6.
Twelve Brave Seamen
One stormy afternoon, under a perfect rainbow, twelve brave seamen set out to sail the seven seas.
Everything went well until twenty miles into the third sea, when a bad storm blew up. The clouds became thick and black and it was very dark. The four crewmen in the engine room looked out of the portholes. The waves were so high it looked as if the ship was underwater.
Another crewman climbed up to the lookout to see if he could see an island. He turned the searchlight on but he didn’t see the nearby rocks.
The ship hit the rocks and something went CRUNCH!!!
“Everyone to the lifeboat!” shouted the Captain. “Nothing we can do will save this ship.”
Someone (the crewman who could count quickly) said, “There are only eleven of us.”
Just then the crewman from the lookout rushed into the lifeboat. He was so BIG he nearly overturned the little boat.
The lifeboat tossed around like a matchbox in the stormy seas and some of the crew were seasick.
In the morning the sailors found themselves washed up onto a beach, next to an old shipwreck.
to be continued…….
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