Some compound words are closed: keyboard, textbook.

Other compound words are open: ice cream, a lot.

There are no clues that tell whether a compound word will be open or closed, so it is important to study these words carefully.

1.    ice cream

2.    a lot

3.    keyboard

4.    fairy tale

5.    horseshoe

6.    piggy bank

7.    textbook

     8.  guidelines

9.    newspaper

10.  space shuttle

11.  hay fever

12.  dead end

13.  password

14.  teenager

15.  skateboard

16.  everything

17.  barbed wire

18.  cartwheel

19.  root beer

20.  fingerprint

     Challenge Words

21.  air conditioner

22.  blood pressure

23.  worldwide

24.  straightedge

25.  cross country