It Takes Two!
Create a WordIf a hybrid dog is a combination of two otherwise unlike dogs, what do you think is the definition of a compound word? It’s a word with a distinct meaning entirely different from the two words that are combined to form the new word.
The words in the lists below are taken from A Dog’s Life by Ann M. Martin. See if you can combine one word from column A on the left with another word from column B on the right to form a new compound word — for example, snowdrift. (There may be more than one way to combine words from A with words from B.)
Next see how many of the words you can combine into a single sentence. Need some help? See the compound words that we created.
| List A
snow |
List B
drift |
