Compound Words for First Grade

Do you know many compound words for first grade? If you need some to teach a lesson or to explain them to your students, then this article will help. There are some games, worksheets, and online resources for you to use.

Review: Compound Words

A compound word is made by putting two words together.

Examples are:

• Cupcake
• Something
• Nowhere
• Anybody

There are many compound words for first grade that students can understand and enjoy working with. Following are some activities and worksheets for the classroom.

Matching Games

Compound words work really well in matching games. Just print out the words on heavy paper, cut them out, and make a matching activity. There are 20 compound words at First School Years that are appropriate for first grade students. Apples4TheTeacher has word search games with compound words that you can print out for classroom use.

Worksheets for Compound Words

Here are two worksheets that have practice with compound words for first grade students. None of the compound words repeat from one worksheet to the other.

Worksheet #1

A. Directions: Draw a line between two words that make a compound word.

1. pony    hopper
2. back    yard
3. grass    tail
4. earth    cake
5. pan      quake
6. dragon    fish
7. jelly     stick
8. lip     brush
9. tooth    ground
10. play    fly

B. Directions: Underline the word that can not be added to the first word to make a compound word.

Example: day      dream     light     ground     break

Dayground is not a compound word, but daydream, daylight, and daybreak are compound words.

1. hand  out    writing paper      shake
2. door  knob   place  way  mat
3. air   play plane  line  port
4. down  hill there  stairs  town
5. fire   fly proof  work  brush
6. head  over ache  first  light
7. ear   ring phone  play  ache
8. house  work down  wife  hold
9. cross  over word  tail  road
10.  bed  bug time  spread  wash  

Answers:

A. ponytail, backyard, grasshopper, earthquake, pancake, dragonfly, jellyfish, lipstick, toothbrush, playground 

B. 

1. hand  out    writingpaper      shake
2. door  knob  place  way  mat
3. air  playplane  line  port
4. down  hill there  stairs  town
5. fire   fly proof  work brush
6. head overache  first  light
7. ear   ring phone play  ache
8. house  workdown  wife  hold
9. cross  over word tail  road
10. bed  bug time  spread wash 

Worksheet #2

A. Directions: Draw a line between two words that make a compound word and write the compound word on the line.

1. sun    corn   __________
2. pop    rise   __________
3. after   cut   __________
4. hair    noon   __________
5. cow    boy   __________
6. fire    dog   __________
7. news   place   __________
8. foot    paper   __________
9. scare   ball   __________
10. bull   crow   __________

B. Directions: Underline the word that can not be added to the first word to make a compound word.

1. under  arm shirt boat ground
2. sea   food sky shell shore
3. time  piece table over keeper
4. out   arm side come doors
5. life   fly boat time guard
6. up   here grade set stairs
7. water  fall proof up   melon
8. some  under body how place
9. land  slide mark lord dog
10. rain  bow fall cats coat  

Answers:

A. 1. sunrise, 2. popcorn, 3. afternoon, 4. haircut, 5. cowboy, 6. fireplace, 7. newspaper, 8. football, 9. scarecrow, 10. bulldog

B.

1. under  arm shirtboatground
2. sea   foodskyshell shore
3. time  piece tableoverkeeper
4. out  armside come doors
5. life  flyboat time guard
6. up  heregradeset stairs
7. water  fall proofup   melon
8. some underbody how place
9. land  slide mark lorddog
10. rain  bow fallcatscoat