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Compound Words

The document discusses compound words. It provides examples of one-word compound words like baseball and newspaper, hyphenated compound words like sister-in-law, and two-word compound words like love letter. Readers are asked to identify compound words in sentences and poems. The purpose is to help students learn about and identify different types of compound words.

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Compound Words

The document discusses compound words. It provides examples of one-word compound words like baseball and newspaper, hyphenated compound words like sister-in-law, and two-word compound words like love letter. Readers are asked to identify compound words in sentences and poems. The purpose is to help students learn about and identify different types of compound words.

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Compound words

Find Out and Learn

Read the sentences.


1. The ladybugs landed on a leaf one early morning.
2. They wanted aphids for breakfast.
3. The grouchy ladybug saw a stag beetle and wanted to fight with it.
4. The praying mantis prepared to fight with the ladybug.
5. The one-day old aphids were eaten by the bugs.
Questions:
1. What are the underlined words in the sentences?
2. What can you say about these words?
3. What two words can you find in these words?
4. Can you think of other words which are combinations of two words?
Study the examples
below.
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
baseball report card one-half
handshake fairy tale twenty-one
newspaper love letter sister-in-law
sunshine
rainbow

What can you say about the


compound words in each
column?
Try and Learn
Identify the compound words in the paragraph. Say if it is a one-
word compound, two-word compound, or a hyphenated compound
word.

Janna loves to visit her grandmother in the farmyard on weekends. She loves
to sit with her Lola Marta on the rocking chair and watch the fireflies at night.
Lola Marta always reads fairy tales to Janna before bedtime. She also shows her
how to cook pancakes in the frying pan. Janna proudly claims that she made
forty-four cookies one weekend and shared one-half of them with the vice-
president of thier homeowner’s club.
Do and Learn
A. Match the words on Column 1 with the words in Column 2 to
form one-word compound words. Then complete the sentences
using the words formed. Do this on a separate sheet of paper.
Column 1 Column 2
birth mates
air day
class port

1. We attended my cousin’s _____ party.


2. Their house was near the _____. We saw a lot of planes.
3. Most of those who were in the party were her _____.
B. Combine the words in the parentheses to form hyphenated compound
words. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Mr. Cruz is the _____ of my teacher. (father+in+law)
2. Riding the _____ is really fun. (merry+go+round)
3. We saw Peter going to the store to buy an _____ medicine. He said he hurt
his foot. (over+the+counter)

C. Complete the sentences with two-word compound


words. Rewrite the sentences in your notebook.
1. The _____ helped Mr. Cruz by giving him a wheelchair. (security+guard)
2. The man brought Mr. Cruz to the _____. (emergency+room)
3. He was in such a hurry that he did not see the _____ blocking his way.
(trash+can)
Lear Some More

Identify the compound words used in the poem. Write these on the
table given
In the Beehive Animal Homes
Author Unknown Author Unknown

Here is the beehive A spider lives in a cobweb.


But where are the bees? A dog in the doghouse.
Hidden inside where nobody sees. A worm in the tunnel underground
Watch as they come out of their hives, While horses stay in the barnyard
One, two, three bees, No bedroom, nor bed
Four bees, five! Just a cozy place to sleep.
Firefly Hi Ladybug Rhyme
Helen Moore Maria Fleming

What’s that? Ladybugs all dressed in red


In the summer evening sky? Strolling through the flower bed.
Again it goes! If I were tiny just like you
Fly-flashing by! I’d creep among the flowers, too.
It’s here, it’s here, it’s…
A firefly.

One-word Hyphenated Two-word


Compound Words Compound Words Compound Words

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