Form a compound word

A half that turns up in lots of other compounds feels like it must fit here too, and usually it does not. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.

Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Say each join out loud as one word. A compound has to be a word by itself, not just two words next to each other.

The skill map draws the line here: Excludes arbitrary phrase formation. A question past that line is testing a different named verbal reasoning skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.

The word strand holds 9 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to form a compound word are form a derived word, move a letter between words and identify an impossible word formation. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.

Use Word Welder, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to form a compound word, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.