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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).

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.L.4; 2.L.5 · 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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, 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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    One box, two…

    📦 📦
    • box
    • boxs
    • boxes

  2. Question 2

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

    butter + fly

    • 🎒backpack
    • 🦋butterfly
    • 🏀basketball

  3. Question 3

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

    snow + man

    • 🧥raincoat
    • 🧁cupcake
    • ⛄snowman

  4. Question 4

    What is the opposite of “hot”?

    • thin
    • up
    • cold

  5. Question 5

    What is the opposite of “lose”?

    • win
    • full
    • first

  6. Question 6

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

    tooth + brush

    • 🏀basketball
    • ✈️airplane
    • 🪥toothbrush

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