Word wise: Compound words

Series: Vocabulary Skills Series

Duration: 10

Year Published: 1976

Creator: Bean Norman

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Uses a story of a canoe trip to teach the concept of compound words. Various compound words are reinforced visually and aurally., Presents, orally and visually, a vocabulary lesson about the word building technique of compounding words. Uses a story about a canoe trip down a river with rapids to illustrate the process of combining two words of different meanings into a new word that can stand alone. Visualizes members of the canoe trip realizing that long words are many times only two short words put together.

Complete Record: Uses a story of a canoe trip to teach the concept of compound words. Various compound words are reinforced visually and aurally., Presents, orally and visually, a vocabulary lesson about the word building technique of compounding words. Uses a story about a canoe trip down a river with rapids to illustrate the process of combining two words of different meanings into a new word that can stand alone. Visualizes members of the canoe trip realizing that long words are many times only two short words put together.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


1 user has this film:
Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive


Related films: