Lesson 67A
Compound Words
Compound words with two closed syllables
Choose a part
UFLI splits this review lesson into separate sub-lessons. Each part is its own 3-day plan — teach one part, or teach them back to back if your students need the extra practice.
Compound words provide an excellent opportunity to explore and practice multisyllabic words. Remember, closed syllables have one vowel followed by one or more consonants and make a short vowel sound (/ă/, /ĕ/, /ĭ/, /ŏ/, /ŭ/). An example of a closed syllable is sun. In the syllable sun, the vowel, U, is followed by one consonant, N, so the vowel sound is short. We can combine two closed syllables to make longer words. When these longer words are made up of two smaller words, we call them compound words.
Today's plan
about 20 min- Step 1Warm up our ears (blend & segment)2 min
- Steps 2 & 3Look & Say / Listen & Spell4 min
- Step 4Blending drill3 min
- Step 5New concept6 min
- Step 5Read & spell the new words5 min
Warm Up Our Ears
Say the sounds; students blend them into a word. Then say a word; students break it apart.
Blend it (teacher says sounds → you say word)
Break it (I say word → you say sounds)
Sound Drills
Full-screen cards for the class. Tap a card to check the answer, or press Hear the words to hear the example words read aloud.
👂 Listen & Spell — teacher list (14 sounds)
Say each sound; students write the spelling(s). Read straight from this list.
- /t/t (as in top), -ed
- /d/d (as in dog), -ed
- /ĭd/-ed
- /k/c (as in cat), k (as in kite) · cat
- /s/s (as in sun), ss, c (as in city) · sun
- /ă/a (as in apple)
- /ā/a (as in table)
- /ŏ/o (as in hot)
- /ō/o (as in go)
- /ĕ/e (as in bed)
- /ē/e (as in me)
- /ŭ/u (as in cup)
- /ū/u (as in truth)
- /yū/u (as in music)
Blending Drill
Change one part at a time and read the new word.
Initial
h l m
Middle
o
u
Final
+
p t
New Concept
Today we learn to read and spell compound words made of two closed syllables, like sunset and stepdad.
Highlighted words are the ones to show and practice reading — tap one to hear it.
A syllable is a word or part of a word with one vowel sound. A syllable can be pushed out in one breath. Your chin will usually drop slightly as you say each syllable in a word. We have learned about closed syllables. Closed syllables have one vowel followed by one or more consonants. We can combine two closed syllables to make longer words. When these longer words are made up of two smaller words, we call them compound words. Let's practice reading compound words.
Building the compound word sunset
The first part of this word is sun (show card). The next part of this word is set (show card). If you put them together (slide cards together), what is this word? (sunset). The compound word sunset has two smaller words that are closed syllables, sun and set.
Reading compound words
When reading compound words with two closed syllables, first we read the first word or syllable (step). Then, we read the second word or syllable (dad). Last, we blend the two words or syllables together to read the word (stepdad). Continue modeling with 'I do' words during reading practice (e.g., hot-dog, hotdog).
How our mouth moves
To make the schwa /ə/ sound, open your mouth just a little bit, like this…(model). Be sure your voice is on. Unlike other vowel sounds, we don't stretch out the schwa; we say it more quickly. Watch me /ə/. You try /ə/.
Sound wall
Add 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'o', and 'y' under the /ə/ picture card.
Open the digital sound wall →Read & Spell
Read — I do
Read — We do
Spell — I do
Spell — We do