This hard worksheet gives second graders a tougher set of compound-word puzzles. Part A has four multiple-choice questions where students pick grapefruit over kitchen and village, find that grand + mother (not gran + mother) makes grandmother, and spot basket as the non-compound hiding among lighthouse, jellyfish, and snowman. They also choose eyebrow when eye meets brow.

Part B is a five-question fill-in-the-blank set that builds applesauce, lipstick, and meatball and pulls grand from grandmother and fruit from grapefruit. Students leave able to break long words into meaningful parts and predict their meanings.

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Busy Bee
Compound Words
Grade 2
★ Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which word is a compound word?
 A) mittens
 B) grapefruit
 C) kitchen
 D) village
2. What two words make up grandmother?
 A) grand + moth
 B) gran + mother
 C) grand + mother
 D) grander + mother
3. Which word is NOT a compound word?
 A) lighthouse
 B) jellyfish
 C) basket
 D) snowman
4. Eye + brow = ?
 A) eyeball
 B) eyelash
 C) eyebrow
 D) eyelid
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1) Apple + sauce = applesauce.
2) Grapefruit is made from grape and fruit.
3) Lip + stick = lipstick.
4) The first part of grandmother is grand.
5) Meat + ball = meatball.
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