Question

A second-grade teacher has students take two single-syllable nouns from a hat (e.g., snow, man) and asks them to form new words by putting the words together (e.g., snowman). students then draw pictures to illustrate their new words and write short stories using the new words. this activity is likely to be most effective for helping students

Answer 1

This activity help the children to understand the concept of compound words. Compound words are comprise of two or more words that are joined to make a new term with its own significance. The smaller words that form a compound word are like mystery pieces you appropriate together to make a new finer picture. For example snow and man, the compound word now is snowman.