Compound Words
Join two small words to make a new compound word.
What your child learns
- Spot the two words inside a compound word
- Build compound words from parts
- Work out meanings from the parts
Example
sun + flower = sunflower.
Practice questions
A taste of the questions in BloomTracks – the app makes fresh ones every time and adjusts the level as your child answers.
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Question 1 · Level 1
pan + cake = ?
- pancake
- raincoat
- snowman
- airplane
Show the answer
Answer: pancake
pan + cake = pancake
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Question 2 · Level 3
How do you split waterfall into two words?
- water + fall
- waterf + all
- wate + rfall
- wat + erfall
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Answer: water + fall
waterfall = water + fall
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Question 3 · Level 5
What does the compound word homesick mean?
- with all your energy and feeling
- to imagine pleasant things while awake
- missing your home
- someone who often drops things
Show the answer
Answer: missing your home
homesick means “missing your home”.
Try it at home
Find compound words in a storybook (football, bedroom, rainbow).
Key takeaway
Split a long word into smaller words to read and understand it.
Practise compound words with Bloomie
Bloomie reads every question aloud, listens to spoken answers and adapts the difficulty one question at a time.