Brain Teasers – Word Play Compound Word Puzzles

Dog plus house makes doghouse in these word play brain teasers for grades 2–4. A How It Works box models the idea with a rain cloud and a water drop, and Part 1 gives six picture-math puzzles where students name two pictures and join them into one compound word.

The puzzles then move from pictures to words. Students pick the partner word that completes a picture clue, check which of eight words are true compounds, split six compound words into their two parts and write sentences with two words they found. In Missing Middle, one bank word must finish one compound and start the next, as in tea, pot and hole. A Word Builder box asks for four compounds from two word lists, and on page 5 children draw a pair of compound-word puzzles, fold back the answer strip and swap with a classmate to guess.

• Grades 2–4 word study: 37 numbered items plus a draw-your-own page, across 5 student pages
• Answers for every part: on a single teacher page
• Print in color or grayscale: bright color pages or an ink-light grayscale copy