This medium worksheet asks second graders to build compounds from both directions. Part A is a nine-question fill-in-the-blank set where students join snow + man into snowman, light + house into lighthouse, and dragon + fly into dragonfly, then split words like playground and homework into their two parts. They also catch a tricky non-compound when they look at peanut and find pea as the first chunk.

Part B is a four-pair matching activity that pairs snow, light, lady, and play with man, house, bug, and ground. The mix of building and breaking helps students see compounds as flexible word puzzles.