📚 Quick Study Guide
- 🧩 Compound words are two smaller words joined together to make a new word with a new meaning.
- 💡 For example, "sun" + "flower" becomes "sunflower." ☀️🌻
- ✍️ Most compound words for Grade 3 are "closed," meaning they are written as one single word (like "cupcake" or "backpack").
- 🔎 To find a compound word, look for two smaller, complete words hiding inside a longer word!
🧠 Practice Quiz
Choose the best answer for each question.
- Which word is a compound word?
A) running
B) playground
C) quickly
D) beautiful - What two words make up "toothbrush"?
A) tooth + brush
B) too + brush
C) top + brush
D) teeth + rush - Which sentence uses a compound word correctly?
A) I saw a butter fly.
B) I saw a butterfly.
C) I saw a butter-fly.
D) I saw a butter and fly. - Find the compound word:
A) jumping
B) everyday
C) happily
D) thinking - If you combine "rain" and "bow", what compound word do you get?
A) rain-bow
B) rainbow
C) rain bow
D) rainb - Which of these is NOT a compound word?
A) cupcake
B) baseball
C) teacher
D) lighthouse - What compound word means "a place where you keep books"?
A) bookshelf
B) book-shelf
C) book shelf
D) bookshop
Click to see Answers
1. B) playground (play + ground)
2. A) tooth + brush
3. B) I saw a butterfly.
4. B) everyday (every + day)
5. B) rainbow
6. C) teacher
7. A) bookshelf (book + shelf)