Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
2.2.B
demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:
decoding words with short, long, or variant vowels, trigraphs, and blends;
decoding words with silent letters such as knife and gnat;
decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables;
decoding compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations;
decoding words using knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VCCV, VCV, and VCCCV;
decoding words with prefixes, including un-, re-, and dis-, and inflectional endings, including -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est; and
identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list;
2nd Grade Reading - Compound Words Lesson
A compound word is a single word made up of two or more other words. The new combined word has its own unique meaning separate from the meanings of the original words used to make it.