What words can do for you?
Moonscape
Unimaginable
Wading
Compound words
 Are words, that are adjectives and nouns, that combined
into compound structures into different ways.
 One word + another word = a different word
and meaning
By Claudia Lewis and Illustrated by
Leonard Weisgard
Compound words of the day
MOON
 The moon is part of our solar
system that orbits the earth and
acts like a satellite to Earth.
 The Moon also reflects light from
the sun while earth is dark.
SCAPE
A scene, as of the land, water,
clouds, describes the area
surrounding the first word, in
this case it is the moon.
Scape is used to describe the
shadowing, coloring, and
appearance of what someone is
looking at.
Moon + Scape = Moonscape
Characteristic of the surface of the
moon, describing the features
being rocky and empty.
Making Compound Word
What other word can you
make a compound word
with the word
 Tree
 Land
Scape
 Man
 Time
Use your imagination
1. Draw a picture of what you think the moon
would look like if you were standing on the
moon
2. Write and describe three things you would see
on the moon.
Unimaginable
To find something hard to
“imagine” or understand
Word with a pre-fix and suffix
 Unimaginable
 UN- Added to a , puts daught in the fact you could
“imagine” something.
 Imagine- To create a picture in your mind
 Able- when added to a word makes the root word
possible.
Line match: Connect the prefix on the left to the
matching prefix meaning on the right
 SYM
Over, Above
 Super
False
 Pseudo
with, together
 Per
through
Line match: Connect the suffix on the left to
the matching suffix meaning on the right.
 phobia
Can be Done
 able
Exaggerated fear
 ism
Act, State
 ia
the belief in
Wading
 Root word “Wade”
 Meaning: to move through (verb)
 Add “ing” turns a word from a verb to a noun
 Wading (noun) is the acting of a person wading in
water
Find a matching word
 Steve would jump on one
leg.____________
 Running
 Talking
 Looking
 Stacy and Julie had
talked on the
phone_______
 Take a look at these birds
through my glasses_____
 Jumping
Try to match the compound
words
 Milk
 Hole
 Lay
 Man
 Jelly
 Hole
 Sick
 Fly
 Milk
 Tail
 Key
 Off
 Fox
 Fish
 Butter
 Bed
Write the list word that
answers each question.
 Who is your grandmother’s
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mother?____________
Who came in
second?____________
What do you get if you stay in
the sun too
long?______________
What do you do when you
take care of a young
child?______________
What are you when you’re left
with nothing? ________
What is something that’s not
modern? _____________
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Old-fashioned
Foothills
Daydream
Sunburn
Folklore
Knee-deep
Babysit
Fine-tune
Great-grandmother
Empty-handed
Runner-up
Make-believe