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📖 2nd Grade · ELAL.2.4dUnit 7: Word study: syllables, prefixes & suffixes

Compound words

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🎯 Objective: Students use the meanings of two words to predict a compound word.

Lesson outline

  1. Picture math: sun + flower = sunflower.
  2. Build compounds.
  3. Word search.
  4. Exit: three compounds.

Lesson 5 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.2.4d

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Decode two-syllable words with long vowels
  • Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes
  • Use word parts to find meaning

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🔎 Word search maker📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Word study: syllables, prefixes & suffixes”

  1. Syllable types
  2. Diphthongs ou, ow, oi, oy
  3. Prefixes un- and re-
  4. Suffixes -ful, -less, -ly
  5. Compound words
  6. Using a dictionary

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