Compound And Teaching Nouns

Compound nouns are nouns that was set up combining two words together.

There are three types.

- Join The (input / bath / waterpark)
- Open (post office / Real Estate / night watchman)
Writes the hyphen (mother-in-law / people who are concerned)

When you compound nouns make sense to teach your students to spend part of your time exploring the join type.

This is due to open easy to understand. This is really just a few adjectives commonly used nouns.

For their part, the hyphenated rare. This is usually enough to introduce themselves and show a few examples.

With this idea to get some lessons to join ideas of compound noun!

1. Write to the mixture simple key board and ask your students to make them difficult to use nouns as can be. Try words - air sofa bed hand side behind the death watch farmyard Diseases hand hair cutting step and a half foot line drive home made. After a few minutes to ask four or five students to suggest words to add to the list.

2. Focuses on words and see how many different endings you can find. Examples: ear pain, ear drum, ear lobe, set aside to cover the ear, earphones, earrings, hearing.

A fun way to young students to offer answers to cloze sentences that can be answered only in a compound noun that begins with the words. For example, I have bad ear_____. A bad ear infection can cause ear_____ explode. I had a hole ear_____ two earrings. I have a page ear______ want to read.

In other words, a good starting ground, Grand, hands and head. Dictionary fast way to search for all possible combinations.

3. Challenge your students think noun compounds 100 on weekends.

This works well if they have a page titled "100 compound nouns. They can start by authorities 4 or 5 set, and write numbers 1-100. This can be done every day, as a class activity or as homework. A dictionary is a great resource for this activity.

This can be extended to next week, asking each student to contribute to the collection class. Words can be written on the card placed on written notice board or a large piece of cardboard. Advanced 300 goals or more words that can help attract students.

This activity may also be a small group to extend the activities of self-motivated students who thrive on challenges.