168. Compound words

The lesson, step by step

1. Look at the pattern

   A compound word is two words joined into one: bee + hive, light + house. Spell it by spelling each small word.

   The book puts it this way:

   Compound Words promiscuously arranged.

2. Read the list aloud together

   Open the book to the lesson. Read the words aloud together, one column at a time. Some of them:

   alehouse, hailstone, layman, safeguard, waistcoat, beehive, keystone, bridegroom, lighthouse, boatman

   Then your child reads a column alone, pointing to each word.

3. Find the two words

   For each compound, your child names the two small words inside it and says what the whole word means.

4. Write from dictation

   Close the book. Say ten compound words from the list. Your child writes each as one word, spelling the two parts one after the other.

5. Check and correct

   Open the book and check each word together, letter by letter. For each mistake, your child looks at the right spelling, says it, spells it aloud, and writes it correctly three times.

   Add any word that was missed to a hard-words list.

6. Quick review

   Ask three or four words from the hard-words list, or from the last lesson if the list is empty. Words spelled right twice in a row can come off the list.