Pig (Compound Words)
Practice Words
Two-syllable compound words formed by joining two smaller words together.
This girl is at the playground. 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 standing in the sunshine. 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 downhill and the pig runs after her. She is glad that the pig wants to go with her.
Pigs love mud. She leads the pig to a puddle in the bright sunshine. It jumps in and mud flies up high! Her new dress and boots get muck all over them, but they both have a great time.
She climbs up a tree. She loves to sit on a high branch and look out at the hillside. 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 in a happy daydream. She does not want to leave the pig.
The sun is low and her mom will be mad if she stays out. At sunset, she will try to sneak the stinky beast into the house so that they can keep having a good time. She waits until her mom looks away...
They tiptoe down the hallway so that they don't make noise. Mom will kick the pig out for sure. They have to sneak in so that the pig can stay and be her friend.
They sneak into Mom's bedroom and spot her makeup on the table. She loves to play with her mom's things. The girl shows the pig how cute it looks in bright red lipstick. Pig grins at itself in the big mirror.
Oh no! Mom spots them from the doorway! Mom says that there is filth all over the house, and that it all leads to this stinky beast. She says that it needs to go, or...
'Get in the bathtub!' says Mom. Mom does not mind it staying as long as it 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 in the bathtub. They will scrub until all of the muck is gone. Then they can play again!