Compound words for 1st graders

Compound Words for First Grade: A Foundational List

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As kids continue to build their vocabulary in first grade, it's important to introduce them to compound words for kids. Use this extensive list of compound words appropriate for first graders along with the included worksheet to help early elementary students establish a solid foundation that will help them throughout every aspect of their language arts education.

Reviewing Compound Words

Putting it simply, a compound word is made by putting two words together to form a single word. The resulting compound word may have a meaning that cannot be determined directly by examining the two original words.

Examples are:

• cupcake (cup + cake) - A small cake for a single serving, usually with icing on top.
• something (some + thing) - A thing that may not be entirely known.
• nowhere (no + where) - Not in any place.
• anybody (any + body) - Any person at all.

Compound Words for First Grade

There are many compound words for first grade that students of that age can easily understand and enjoy working with. There are actually three types of compound words, but it's best to stick with closed compounds (two words that become a single word with no punctuation) with first graders. Focus on the basics; they can discover more complex compounds later.

Compound Words Table A-D

Review a selection of basic compound words starting with the letters A-D.

Compound Words Table E-L

Many additional basic compound words start with the letters E-L.

Compound Words Table M-Z

There are many basic compound words that start with the letters M - Z.

Printable List of 500+ Compound Words for Kids

For a great teaching resource that's also a fun and cute handout, download the printable list of compound words. It features more than 500 compound words kids can start learning in first grade (and beyond!).

500 compound words for kids

Activity: Matching Game Using Compound Words

Compound words work really well in matching games. Children love finding matching pairs among the pile, and it also allows for some creativity in forming new words altogether. It's easy to make your own.

1. Choose a selection of compound words from the list above. (Five words per student is a good number to start with, though you may want to go with more or less.)
2. Cut cardstock paper in halves or quarters to form cards, or use index cards.
3. Print the individual words that join together to form the compound words on their own card. (For example, if you choose yardstick as one of the words, write "yard" on one card and "stick" on another.)
4. Assign students to work individually or in pairs, letting them know that their task is to match the cards to form five (or whatever number you are using) compound words.
5. Provide each student (or pair of students) with the appropriate cards.
6. When students have completed the task, have each student (or pair of students) call out their words. Then, lead the class in a discussion of the activity. Ask them to share what they found challenging, as well as what strategies they used.

Compound Words Practice

In addition to the matching game above, you may be interested in some practice exercises to help teach compound words to children. The answers to these practice questions appear below the printable worksheet, which includes additional practice questions.

Practice Forming Compound Words

Choose the correct answer from the options below each sentence.

1. Which of the following words can be combined with "pony" to form a compound word?
   1. cake
      
   2. tail
   3. fish
2. Which word can be combined with "back" to form a compound word?
   1. yard
   2. quake
   3. fly
3. Which word can be combined with "grass" to form a compound word?
   
   1. pan
   2. grow
   3. hopper
4. Which word can be combined with "play" to form a compound word?
   1. ground
   2. earth
   3. tooth
5. Wich word can be combined with "jelly" to form a compound word?
   1. food
   2. fish
   3. rise

Printable Compound Word Practice Worksheet

For even more practice exercises in worksheet form, download the printable worksheet below. It focuses on helping students learn to recognize and form compound words, along with an answer key. Activities include connecting words to form compound words, identifying word pairs that do and don't work as compound words and properly writing compound words.

Compound word practice worksheet

Answers to Practice Forming Compound Words

The correct answers to the in-article practice items are listed below. The correct response is bold and the compound word appears in parentheses.

1. Which of the following words can be combined with "pony" to form a compound word?
   1. cake
      
   2. tail (ponytail)
   3. fish
2. Which word can be combined with "back" to form a compound word?
   1. yard (backyard)
   2. quake
   3. fly
3. Which word can be combined with "grass" to form a compound word?
   
   1. pan
   2. grow
   3. hopper (grasshopper)
4. Which word can be combined with "play" to form a compound word?
   1. ground (playground)
   2. earth
   3. tooth
5. Wich word can be combined with "jelly" to form a compound word?
   1. food
   2. fish (jellyfish)
   3. rise

A Life of Learning

One of the most important lessons you can teach first graders is that learning is fun! When helping them with understanding compound words, be sure that they're having a good time. This will pave the way for a lifelong love of learning. They'll be prepared to focus on compound nouns sooner rather than later. Compound verbs won't be far behind. Before long, they'll even be tackling compound sentences.

150 Examples of Compound Words for Kids – TurtleDiary.com

Compound words are formed when two or more words are joined together to create a new word that has an entirely new meaning.

Click here for Compound Words Games, Videos, Quizzes, Worksheets and Lessons.

For example, “sun” and “flower” are two different words, but when fused together, they form another word, Sunflower. These words are formed by either adding a hyphen or just using the two words as a single term.  The spelling of the two words is not necessarily changed when they are joined together, but the definition becomes unique.

Consider the words “make up” and “makeup”. This is a more advanced example of a compound word because the resulting combination is a homonym and can be used in more than one way.

Make up your mind fast.

My makeup was ruined by the rain!

I have a makeup exam tomorrow.

In the first sentence, make up is a verb. In the second sentence, makeup is used as a noun.  In the third sentence, we see makeup as an adjective describing “exam.”

Types of Compound Words

There are three types of compound words;

1. Closed Compound words: These words are written as a single word, such as haircut, newspaper, grandmother, etc.
2. Open Compounds: Compound words that are written as separate words such as high school, living room, school bus, etc.
3. Hyphenated Compounds: Words that use a hyphen in between two words, such as well-known, second-rate, merry-go-round, etc.

Fun ways to teach Compound Words

Every child has a different way of learning. What works for one may not work for another so we have created these fun ways to teach your kid compound words. Choose the best activity that tailors to your kid’s learning style.

• Visual learning style – Prepare flashcards, half with words and half with pictures. Have your child lay them out in grid style and flip two cards over at a time. The goal is to find a word and a picture to create a compound word. Students will have to use their memory to succeed at this game.
• Kinesthetic learning style- Give students a compound word and have them draw the two “parts” of the compound word. For example, for “doghouse” a kid would draw a dog and a house.
• Help the kids make compound word daisies. Have them write a word in the middle of the paper flower and ask them to write compound words that utilize the word on the petals.

Once your students know the basics of compounds, you can help them move onto more difficult words.

Practice with these 150 examples of compound words:

1. Airplane
2. Airport
3. Angelfish
4. Antfarm
5. Ballpark
6. Beachball
7. Bikerack
8. Billboard
9. Blackhole
10. Blueberry
11. Boardwalk
12. Bodyguard
13. Bookstore
14. Bow Tie
15. Brainstorm
16. Busboy
17. Cabdriver
18. Candlestick
19. Car wash
20. Cartwheel
21. Catfish
22. Caveman
23. Chocolate chip
24. Crossbow
25. Daydream
26. Deadend
27. Doghouse
28. Dragonfly
29. Dress shoes
30. Dropdown
31. Earlobe
32. Earthquake
33. Eyeballs
34. Father-in-law
35. Fingernail
36. Firecracker
37. Firefighter
38. Firefly
39. Firework
40. Fishbowl
41. Fisherman
42. Fishhook
43. Football
44. Forget
45. Forgive
46. French fries
47. Goodnight
48. Grandchild
49. Groundhog
50. Hairband
51. Hamburger
52. Handcuff
53. Handout
54. Handshake
55. Headband
56. Herself
57. High heels
58. Honeydew
59. Hopscotch
60. Horseman
61. Horseplay
62. Hotdog
63. Ice cream
64. Itself
65. Kickball
66. Kickboxing
67. Laptop
68. Lifetime
69. Lighthouse
70. Mailman
71. Midnight
72. Milkshake
73. Moonrocks
74. Moonwalk
75. Mother-in-law
76. Movie theater
77. Newborn
78. Newsletter
79. Newspaper
80. Nightlight
81. Nobody
82. Northpole
83. Nosebleed
84. Outer space
85. Over-the-counter
86. Overestimate
87. Paycheck
88. Policeman
89. Ponytail
90. Post card
91. Racquetball
92. Railroad
93. Rainbow
94. Raincoat
95. Raindrop
96. Rattlesnake
97. Rockband
98. Rocketship
99. Rowboat
100. Sailboat
101. Schoolbooks
102. Schoolwork
103. Shoelace
104. Showoff
105. Skateboard
106. Snowball
107. Snowflake
108. Softball
109. Solar system
110. Soundproof
111. Spaceship
112. Spearmint
113. Starfish
114. Starlight
115. Stingray
116. Strawberry
117. Subway
118. Sunglasses
119. Sunroof
120. Supercharge
121. Superman
122. Superstar
123. Tablespoon
124. Tailbone
125. Tailgate
126. Take down
127. Takeout
128. Taxpayer
129. Teacup
130. Teammate
131. Teaspoon
132. Tennis shoes
133. Throwback
134. Timekeeper
135. Timeline
136. Timeshare
137. Tugboat
138. Tupperware
139. Underestimate
140. Uplift
141. Upperclassman
142. Uptown
143. Video game
144. Wallflower
145. Waterboy
146. Watermelon
147. Wheelchair
148. Without
149. Workboots
150. Worksheet

Compound words visiting children

06 Mar 2011 Written by Ekaterina

For the development of the lexical and grammatical side of speech, I developed a lesson using technical means. Since the formation of complex words by adding two words for a preschooler is a very difficult task, I tried to facilitate this task with the help of visual-game tools, modeling situations.

Speech therapist Zonova N.A.

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• Expand and consolidate ideas about people's professions, their originality, attributes, human abilities
• Learn to form complex words by adding, activate the dictionary with complex words;
• Learn to form nouns from verbs;
Correction-developing:
• develop general and fine motor skills;
• improve the ability to use a long air jet;
• develop visual attention and perception;
• create an acoustic-articulatory sound image [Л']
• expand the vocabulary with definitions, verbs;
• practice the ability to make sentences with a given word;
• development of graphomotor skills;

Correctional and educational:
• nurture the desire to engage and achieve positive results.
• educate respect for the work of people of different professions

Equipment: TV, DVD player, music center, water and sand center, illustrations with people's professions, illustrations of the Cheburashka silhouette, a picture depicting a part of the Wolf's body, fishing rods, fish with magnets, a ball .

Handout: cards depicting various attributes for different professions, pictures depicting people of different professions, a simple pencil for each child didactic game "Sound Lotto", plastic massage balls, metal rings for each child; medals.

Preparing for the lesson: pre-filmed clip from the TV show "Good night kids"

1. Organizational moment:
Speech therapist:
One, two, three, four, five new day, I will smile at you, and you will smile at each other. We are calm and kind, we are friendly, healthy. Let's take a deep breath, inhale kindness and beauty.
The melody from the TV show “Good night, kids” sounds”, the children sit down on the carpet in front of the TV.
Speech therapist: Why did the children's show start in the afternoon? Maybe we need our help, let's see.

2. Determination of motivation for the lesson:
A speech therapist appears on the screen in the role of a TV presenter and Phil's toy. They are having a dialogue. Filya turns to the children for help
Filya: Hello, Natalia Aleksandrovna. I need help. I was given the task to unravel the professions of people by these attributes, but I just can’t do it, but I need to tell the children about different professions in the evening edition, I’m just “dying”, help.
Speech therapist: Okay, don't cry. Today I will have a lesson in the kindergarten "Teremok". The children in this garden are very smart, inquisitive and they will definitely help you. Let's start with my profession, TV presenter (shows two cards or a slide: on the first TV, on the second - the presenter) What does the TV presenter do? What attributes does he need?
Phil: microphone, script, news, audience.
Speech therapist: Right. The word "TV presenter" is derived from the two words television and leads. Here we have completed the first task. And now you, my dear children.
Turning off the TV
Speech therapist: today we will be asked questions by your favorite characters of fairy tales and cartoons that we will hear from the TV screen, they are TV presenters today. Who is the first, guess by the silhouette (the teacher shows the silhouette of Cheburashka)

3. Development of general motor skills. Relaxation exercises:
Cheburashka life-size puppet appears on the screen
Cheburashka: Hello guys. Remember my movements, repeat them, and guess the profession of a person from these movements and these working tools.
Cheburashka imitates cleaning a pipe, climbing stairs, shaking off dust from clothes.
Speech therapist: Do you remember the movements? Let's repeat. (repeat movements)
Look at these tools, what profession does a person need them for? This profession is not very common in our time, it is a chimney sweep (shows cards or a slide: on one pipe, on the other - a person cleans)
Children: chimney sweep
Speech therapist: what does a chimney sweep do? What should be a chimney sweep? Why clean pipes?
Children: Cleans. Strong, brave, courageous. To be free from debris, dust, burning. To let the smoke out.

4. Self-massage of hands and fingers. Development of fine motor skills:
Speech therapist: guys, you said that the chimney sweep must be strong, then let's train our hands. To begin with, let's perform a massage with the help of plastic balls - "masseurs".
Children take balls and perform movements as shown by the teacher. The teacher accompanies the movements with a poetic text
Speech therapist:
We made a kolobok
From the flour of its side
Crumpled, crumpled, squeezed
Created a round ball
Rolled on the palm of your hand
We removed the other one
Tossed it up a little
And caught it by the sides
If you like it
Help yourself, I'll give it back
Next, exercises with metal rings are performed. The thumbs are practiced on both hands alternately
I put on the ring
Move it up and down
I roll, roll
I get great benefits
faster”, expanders, tops
Speech therapist pronounces a verse text to relax the hands and fingers
Hands shook vigorously
our fingers stretched
yawned, yawned
and smiled at everyone.

5. Development of graphomotor skills:
Speech therapist: and now guys, come to your desks. Simple pencils and pictures are waiting for you. (each child names his picture from the attributes and tools of a chimney sweep)
Speech therapist: guys, you must shade your picture in the direction indicated in the box in the upper left corner of your leaflet (the teacher individually approaches and checks the correctness of the task, marks the landing when drawing)

6. Formation of a long targeted air jet:
Speech therapist: let's turn our attention to the TV screen, who is the next TV presenter? Try to get to know it in part. (showing part of the wolf picture)
A life-size puppet appears on the screen.
Wolf: Good afternoon, my friends. I enjoy being a TV presenter. Listen to my riddle, and quickly give me a guess:
Has wings, but does not fly
No legs, but you can’t catch up
Swims in an aquarium
Makes people happy
Children: Rybka
Wolf: Correct. What is the name of the profession of a person who fishes?
Children: fisherman.
Speech therapist shows two cards or a slide: on one - a fish, on the other - a person is catching
Speech therapist: What does a fisherman do? What kind of fisherman is he? What can you fish with?
Children: Catches fish. Strong, wet, bold. Fishing rod, nets, hands, harpoon.
Speech therapist: and now, you will be fishermen.
Children go to the center of water and sand and use fishing rods with magnets to catch fish.
Speech therapist: and I will ask some guys to blow, create a storm on our "sea", let our anglers try to catch in difficult conditions.
Then the children switch roles.
Speech therapist: guys, look what we have at the bottom of the sea?
Children: rubbish, things, objects.
Children: diver
The teacher shows cards or a slide: on one - water, on the other - a person descends into the water
Speech therapist: What does the diver do? What kind of diver should be? Why do you need his profession?

7. Formation of nouns from verbs:
And now, stand in a circle, let's play the game "Who is doing what?" I will throw the ball to you and name the action, and you return the ball to me and name the profession of the person who performs this action
Teaches - teacher
Educates - educator
Cleans pipes - chimney sweep
Cooks - cook
Catches fish - angler
Flies - pilot
Climbs into the water - diver
Conducts television programs - TV presenter

8. Literacy education:
Speech therapist: We have another TV presenter, this is the heroine of many folk tales - the Fox.
Lisa's life-size puppet appears on the TV screen with his tasks.
Lisa: My dear children, I welcome you! I would like to understand who cuts down trees in our forest? If you recognize a person of this profession, tell him that there are few trees left in our forest. I hope for you.
Speech therapist: (shows cards or a slide: on one - a forest, on the other - an ax) Guys, what is the name of the profession of a person who cuts a forest?
Children: Lumberjack
Speech therapist: What does a lumberjack do? What tools does a lumberjack need? Is it possible to mindlessly cut down a forest? Guys, what is the first sound in the words "Lumberjack" and "Fox"
Children: sound [L ']
Speech therapist: And how does the sound sound in these words: hard or soft?
Children: Softly
Speech therapist: Guys, come to the tables, let's tell everything we know about the soft sound [L']
Children choose cards with symbols that match the characteristics of the soft consonant sound (barrier - tongue, air stream - warm , according to the participation of the vocal cords - voiced, according to the participation of the middle part of the back of the tongue - soft, the color of the chip is green, the visual image of the letter and its name)
Speech therapist: Well done guys, they coped with the characteristics of the sound, and Lisa gave us cards with the names of professions that will help the forest animals. Let's try to guess them.

9. Consolidation of the ability to form complex words:
The teacher shows cards or a slide "Gardener", "Beekeeper"
Speech therapist: What does the gardener do? beekeeper? why do they plant gardens, bees?
Children: Plants gardens, breeds bees. Gardens are needed to be beautiful, to breathe easier, a home for birds and animals. Bees for pollination of flowers, for honey production.

10. To practice the ability to compose a sentence with a given word:
Speech therapist: Well, guys, you have learned a lot about different professions. Let's decompose the pictures depicting people of different professions into the necessary cards with the image of attributes.
Children independently lay out pictures depicting people of different professions on a card that shows the relevant attributes for this profession
Speech therapist: now guys, think and make a sentence with your own word - the name of the profession, come up to me, pronounce your proposal.
I'll pass on your answers to Phil, and the transmission will be on time and very interesting.

11. Summary of the lesson:
Children stand in a circle, the speech therapist asks questions and evaluates the work of the children in the lesson
Speech therapist: Guys, I really liked you, you clearly answered the questions, tried to pronounce the sounds correctly and clearly.
Which task did you like the most?
Which TV presenter was the best?
What is the profession you will choose when you grow up?
You greeted us with a smile
Answered questions
Draw and write
Play with fingers together
But it's time to say goodbye
And I want to wish you,
To be proud of your profession when you grow up
Be proud and work like today for a grade of five
The teacher awards each child with a medal

Author: Ekaterina

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How to learn to pronounce difficult words

For a speaker, words and phrases that are impossible to pronounce are a cause for excitement and tension. Words that are difficult to pronounce lead to “knocking down” the rhythm and “stumbling” during pronunciation. But it is impossible to do without complex words, therefore it is extremely important to write and pronounce them correctly.

For a confident, effective performance, you need to regularly practice complex pronunciation expressions. Then they will pass into the degree of ordinary ones, they will be easy to pronounce and will no longer bring problems.

Contents

• What are compound words and what they are for
• What are difficult words for
• Examples of difficult words and phrases
• How to learn to pronounce compound words and phrases

What are compound words and what they are for

Compound words consist of two or more roots.

Examples of expressions that cause difficulties for speakers and announcers when pronouncing:

• patrons;
• to the user;
• state;
• registered;
• benefited;
• satellite;
• improvements;
• participants.

Why difficult words are needed

Many words that are difficult to pronounce have appeared in the Russian language. However, these words accurately and concisely convey the essence of the object or phenomenon in the name. Examples:

• agricultural;
• balloonist;
• natural science;
• trendy;
• armored personnel carrier;
• literary criticism.

Compound words - special terms or concepts; the longest and most difficult to pronounce expressions in Russian.

Examples of hard-to-pronounce words and phrases

A huge number of hard-to-pronounce words are chemical names. For example:

• Methylpropenylenedihydroxycinnamenylacrylic acid.
• Dimethylalkylbenzylammonium chloride - a substance that protects metals from corrosion.
• Trinitrotoluene is an explosive used in ammunition for destruction, crushing.
• Para-aminobenzoic acid dimethylethyl ester hydrochloride - common vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
• Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule in the cell that preserves and transmits hereditary information.

Difficult-to-pronounce terms are also found among commonly used words: superman, dance floor.

Complicated phrases are a means for improving pronunciation, developing the articulatory apparatus, helping to make pronunciation intelligible and distinct. Examples:

• Vacuum cleaner stripes were replaced with carpet half stripes.
• Coconut juice is boiled by coco-cookers.
• Kolya swore to Klava on his knees in the maple forest.
• Otters in gaiters dig into buckets in the depths of the tundra cedar kernels.
• Pathologists suspected paraganglia pathology.
• In the summer, five-year-old flying squirrels flew to the gathering of the flying clan.
• Khrushchi grab horsetails. Not every Khrushchev has enough horsetail.
• The son-in-law was carrying an ide because of the Yauza. Winters on the Yauza are full of ides.
• Sasha was walking along the highway and hit the dryer.
• Palmists and surgeons characterize rickets by cartilage fragility and chronic chromosomal hara-kiri.
• A crocodile stole a beautiful crocodile from the edge of a steep tussock. The crocodile gave the crocodile a crocodile.
• A chinchilla in a hut sewed for the chinchillas six shushuns, six pants each, and sixteen shurapkas each.
• Frail, suffering Koschey stole a box of vegetables.

How to learn to pronounce difficult words and phrases

Speech imperfections are easy to correct if you show patience. Complicated phrases are what you need to develop a clear, well-placed diction, a strong voice. In Russian there are tongue twisters intended for these purposes. They are easy to remember, rhythmic. Compliance with the rhythm makes speech smooth, melodic, expressive. It is not necessary to pronounce tongue twisters as quickly as possible, it is enough to pronounce them clearly, correctly placing accents and observing the rhythm.

The only way to learn how to pronounce difficult phrases and words is to constantly practice pronunciation.

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