IDENTIFYING

COMPOUND
WORDS
What form/slip will you fill out if you want to keep
your money in your bank account?

DEPOSIT SLIP
What form/slip will you fill out if you want to get
your money in your bank account?

WITHDRAWAL SLIP
Match Column A with Column B to form the desired
compound word.

Column A Column B

Time a. print
House b. room
Class c. hold
Door d. table
Blue e. knob
Activity 1
Read and study the paragraph below. Look for the compound words that
were used in each sentence. Find out what they mean in these sentences
and answer the questions that follow. Write your answers in your
notebook.

The girls were halfway up to the tree, and

when the floodwater hit it midway, they held
on as tightly as they could. Reaching the
hillcrest, they saw the destruction made by
the busted dam including the trees and plants
on the other hilltop.
What are compound words?
Compound words are when two or more words combine to
form a new single word or a phrase that acts like a single word

Examples:

Pencil + case = pencil case

Black + board = blackboard
Lip + stick = lipstick
Class + room = classroom
What are the three types of compound words?
1. Open compound words
2. Close compound words
3. Hyphenated compound words
Example of Open Compound Words
• Full moon
• Tea cup
• Seat belt
• Ice cube
• Common sense
Example of Close Compound Words
• Baseball
• Birthday
• Afternoon
• Eyeball
• Peanut
• classmate
Example of Hyphenated Compound Words
• Runner-up
• X-ray
• Toss-up
• Run-in
• One-sided
Directions: Match words that join together to make
a compound word.
1. key -melon
2. under- -quake
3. pencil -chair
4. earth- -case
5. water- -board
6.market- -place
7. pillow- -green
8. wheel- -line
9. ear- -wax
10. star- -fish
 Directions: Read the stories below. Find and list five
examples compound word in your notebook.

Playtime
At playtime all the children leave their classroom and go
outside onto the playground. We play different games with
our friends. We play football using goalposts and practice
our netball. We have to be careful though because the
neighborhood has a greenhouse. We have markings on the
ground, like hopscotch, that we can play on. Sometimes, we
see birds in the school garden, like blackbirds, but they soon
fly away. When the whistle is blown everyone stops what
they are doing and stand still, nobody should move. Then we
line up, ready to go back inside for our lessons.
Remember:
➢ Compounding is joining two or more words
together to make them one word
with a new meaning. This new meaning of the
compound word may be the
same as the individual meaning of its component
words or may be different.
Directions: Infer the meaning of the underlined compound words. Choose your
answer from the rectangular box and classify these words according to the three
types of compound words. Write your answers on your notebook.
1. There is no place so sweet and comfortable like one’s motherland.
2. My brother’s mother-in-law from Canada has just arrived to visit her daughter.
3. The real estate agent is selling some lots.
4. Mrs. Santos is our part-time teacher in Mathematics.
5. One morning, Jeriel’s name was in the headline of the daily newspaper.
mother of one’s spouse
homeland
front page
freelance
property