Blending Compound Words
4/1/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Practicing with compound words is an easy way for a child to expand their vocabulary.
Most kids can recognize simpler words, but by introducing compound words, they can build on what they already know. Use hand motions to pair parts of compound words and make learning fun!
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Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Blending Compound Words
4/1/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Most kids can recognize simpler words, but by introducing compound words, they can build on what they already know. Use hand motions to pair parts of compound words and make learning fun!
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- An easy way to build on early reader's vocabulary is to introduce compound words.
Introduce the compound word to the reader, and have them sound it out.
Then represent both halves of the word as the reader's two hands.
Have them bring their hands together as they combine the two words.
- [Student] School.
- [Teacher] School that's right.
- [Student] Work.
- [Teacher] And when you put it together, what do you have?
- [Student] Schoolwork.
- [Teacher] Schoolwork, excellent.
- [Narrator] Readers can review the resulting words' new meaning to ensure understanding.
Attaching movement to letter sounds will help associate them to letter shapes for an early reader.
- Put it together.
- Racetrack.
- Racetrack.
- Thank you for bringing those words together.
You can always explore words you don't know by starting with parts you do.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.