Compound words exercises

Find the following words in the puzzle

anybody basketball bullfrog
cannot everything grandmother
grasshopper inside mailbox
outside railroad schoolhouse
skateboard snowball sometimes
sunflower upstream

Gonzalez Jasso Dafne Carolina

Match the words to make compound words and write them below:

*Neighbor *fish *fighter *bell *room *town *light *chalk *ball *plane
*after *hood *work *class *note *home *basket *fire *flash *air *star
*book *board *door *noon *bed

Bookbed
Neighborhood
NoteBook
Homework Starfish
Basketball Fireworks
Classroom Ballroom
Doorbell Bedroom
Firefighter

Write sentences using the compound words

1. Jose has a basketball game tomorrow
2. I have Homework yo do
3. Maria Is ringing the doorbel
4. The neighborhood Is small
5. The classroom looks great
6.
My Notebook Is bigger than muy bag
7. The starfish Is color pink
8. The fireworks are very beatiful
9. The ballrom hall is dar from muy house
10. My sister's bedroom Is bigger than mine
11.
Maria Is firefighter
12. I always bookbed of in the restaurat
13.
The Spelling Concept
sky + scraper = skyscraper
solar + system = solar system
A compound word is formed by combining two smaller words. Compound words can be one
word, such as skyscraper, or two words, such as solar system.

Link Sounds and Letters

Say each spelling word. Listen for the two words that make-up the compound. On a chart
like the one below, write each compound word.

carefree courthouse everybody everythting

forever grandparent haircut nowhere
skyscraper somebody something wherever no one polka dot
side effect sign language
sleeping bag solar system tape recorder

Carefree Court-house
Everything Hair-cut
Grandparent Solar-system
Nowhere Sleeping bag
Somebody Nowhere
Something Tape recoder
sing
Forever
Effcet