Pig (Compound Words)
Practice Words
Two-syllable compound words formed by joining two smaller words together.
This girl is at the park. She is looking for something fun to do. She can smell something that stinks. She thinks that stinky things are fun. She tries to track it down with her nose.
Oh! It is a stinky beast. She thinks that it must be a pig because it is so smelly and all covered in mud and dirt.
The girl wants to play with the smelly pig. She runs down the hill and the pig runs after her. It makes her glad that it wants to go with her.
Pigs love mud. She leads it to a puddle. It splashes in the muddy water and has a great time. So does she. Her new dress and boots get muck all over them!
She climbs up a tree. She loves to sit on a high branch and look out at the world. The pig does not want to go up. It waits for her to come back.
When she comes back down, she puts her boots on her stinky friend. It starts to make a funny sound, so she sings along with it. She does not want to leave the pig.
The sun is low and her mum will be mad if she stays out. She will try to sneak the stinky beast into the house so that they can keep having a good time. She waits until her mum isn't looking...
They tiptoe down the hallway so that they don't make noise. Mum will kick the pig out for sure. They have to sneak in so that the pig can stay and be her friend.
She loves to play with her mum's things. She shows the pig how cute it is in lipstick and eyeshadow.
Oh no! Mum spots them! Mum says that there is filth all through the house, and that it all leads to this stinky beast. She says that it needs to go, or...
Get in the bathtub! Mum does not mind him staying as long as he is not all covered in muck. They scrub in the tub so that the pig can live with her. What will it look like without all of the muck?
Oh! It is not a pig. It is a pug! It needed a good scrub. They will scrub until all of the muck is gone. Then they can play again!