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2nd grade · English Language Arts · Unit 4 of 14

Word Power

Compound words and opposites

What your child practices

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

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.2(B); 2.3(D) · compound words, opposites and plurals

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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 4 of 14 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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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?

    back + pack

    • 🪥toothbrush
    • 🫐blueberry
    • 🎒backpack

  2. Question 2

    One bus, two…

    🚌 🚌
    • buses
    • bus
    • buss

  3. Question 3

    What is the opposite of “open”?

    • closed
    • dry
    • empty

  4. Question 4

    What is the opposite of “late”?

    • early
    • full
    • fast

  5. Question 5

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

    foot + print

    • 🏈football
    • 👣footprint
    • 🌈rainbow

  6. Question 6

    What is the opposite of “fast”?

    • late
    • hot
    • slow

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