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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 4 of 12

Word Power

Compound words and opposites

What your child practices

Building compound words, finding opposites and spelling plurals (-s and -es).

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.16; 2.17 · compound words and opposites

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A compound word is two words joined together: rain + bow = rainbow.
  2. Opposites mean very different things: hot and cold, win and lose.
  3. Say both small words to check a compound word makes sense.

Example: Put the two words together: sun + flower. What new word do you make? Join the two words with no space. sun + flower = sunflower. Answer: sunflower

Word Power in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 4 of 12 in 2nd grade English Language Arts, after Story Builders and before Book Explorers.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put the two words together. What new word do you make?

    cup + cake

    • 🧁cupcake
    • 🌈rainbow
    • ⛵sailboat

  2. Question 2

    What is the opposite of “push”?

    • fast
    • pull
    • down

  3. Question 3

    Put the two words together. What new word do you make?

    sail + boat

    • ⭐starfish
    • ⛵sailboat
    • 🍉watermelon

  4. Question 4

    What is the opposite of “thin”?

    • thick
    • late
    • wet

  5. Question 5

    One dish, two…

    🍽️ 🍽️
    • dishes
    • dish
    • dishs

  6. Question 6

    One dog, two…

    🐶 🐶
    • doges
    • dog
    • dogs

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