ELA.2.C.3.1 2.2.C 2.11.D

Common & Compound Words 2nd Grade

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.2.C.3.1
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.

Sight words, also known as high-frequency words, are words that are often used in reading and writing. These words usually cannot be sounded out, so their spellings need to be memorized.

A list of common sight words is below.

Common Sight Words
about	came	eight	house	made	please
again	caught	face	how	many	quite
another	clean	field	into	might	read
answer	could	find	just	name	right
because	does	first	keep	never	second
become	does	friend	know	often	simple
begin	during	green	large	once	think
better	each	grow	laugh	only	though
break	early	hear	least	page	what
build	easy	heard	listen	people	where

Read and use sight words in a sentence to memorize their spellings more easily.

Example:

I never caught my friend Danny when we were playing tag.

Example:

The movie star would only answer questions during her break.

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.

basket +
ball =
basketball

straw +
berry =
strawberry

light +
house =
lighthouse

Common Compound Words

cannot
pancake
moonlight
anybody
meantime
sometime
butterfly
today
uplift
backbone
skateboard

homemade
footprints
thumbnail
afternoon
eyeball
honeymoon
dishwasher
popcorn
hometown
thunderstorm
airplane
pickup

riverbank
rainbow
nearby
cupcake
birthday
weekend
toothpaste
underground
bookshelf
honeybee
bookmark

Move on to the next page to answer some questions on common and compound words.

Common & Compound Words

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.2.C.3.1

Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.

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