Compound Words Worksheet
Word tip (Two whole words): Split the word into two parts — each part must be a real word on its own (foot + ball). To make one, find the second word that joins with the first to make a real word: snow + man = snowman. Words like teacher (teach + er) or quickly (quick + ly) end in a suffix, so they are not compound words.
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- 1.Make a compound word: some + ___ (a) milk (b) tree (c) thing (d) pen
- 2.Which is a compound word? (a) postman (b) elephant (c) animal (d) umbrella
- 3.Make a compound word: tooth + ___ (a) shoe (b) road (c) brush (d) cup
- 4.Make a compound word: sand + ___ (a) castle (b) chair (c) milk (d) pen
- 5.Which is a compound word? (a) teacher (b) happiness (c) elephant (d) doorbell
- 6.Which is a compound word? (a) banana (b) running (c) beautiful (d) football
- 7.Which is a compound word? (a) beautiful (b) umbrella (c) pencil (d) starfish
- 8.Which is a compound word? (a) beautiful (b) quickly (c) classroom (d) banana
- 9.Which is a compound word? (a) animal (b) pencil (c) airport (d) elephant
- 10.Make a compound word: class + ___ (a) shoe (b) milk (c) room (d) tree
- 11.Make a compound word: fish + ___ (a) chair (b) pen (c) bowl (d) milk
- 12.Make a compound word: every + ___ (a) pen (b) tree (c) one (d) milk
- 13.Which is a compound word? (a) happiness (b) elephant (c) snowman (d) tomato
- 14.Which is a compound word? (a) happiness (b) toothbrush (c) beautiful (d) teacher
- 15.Make a compound word: butter + ___ (a) chair (b) fly (c) shoe (d) pen
- 16.Make a compound word: pan + ___ (a) tree (b) pen (c) cake (d) shoe
- 17.Which is a compound word? (a) quickly (b) teacher (c) rainbow (d) running
- 18.Make a compound word: play + ___ (a) milk (b) rice (c) cup (d) ground
- 19.Make a compound word: rail + ___ (a) way (b) milk (c) tree (d) pen
- 20.Make a compound word: pop + ___ (a) tree (b) pen (c) corn (d) shoe
- 21.Which is a compound word? (a) tomato (b) waterfall (c) pencil (d) teacher
- 22.Make a compound word: air + ___ (a) port (b) rice (c) book (d) tree
- 23.Make a compound word: jelly + ___ (a) milk (b) chair (c) pen (d) fish
- 24.Make a compound word: fire + ___ (a) fly (b) pen (c) milk (d) cup
- 25.Which is a compound word? (a) headache (b) teacher (c) elephant (d) quickly
- 26.Which is a compound word? (a) kitchen (b) running (c) bookshelf (d) teacher
- 27.Which is a compound word? (a) banana (b) pencil (c) homework (d) happiness
- 28.Make a compound word: sun + ___ (a) milk (b) tree (c) glasses (d) pen
- 29.Which is a compound word? (a) tomato (b) teacher (c) eyebrow (d) umbrella
- 30.Which is a compound word? (a) happiness (b) moonlight (c) elephant (d) teacher
- 31.Which is a compound word? (a) beautiful (b) sunflower (c) kitchen (d) pencil
- 32.Make a compound word: head + ___ (a) milk (b) ache (c) pen (d) tree
- 33.Make a compound word: cup + ___ (a) shoe (b) milk (c) tree (d) board
- 34.Make a compound word: tooth + ___ (a) paste (b) milk (c) tree (d) chair
- 35.Make a compound word: home + ___ (a) work (b) tree (c) pen (d) cup
- 36.Which is a compound word? (a) jellyfish (b) elephant (c) yellow (d) pencil
- 37.Which is a compound word? (a) animal (b) popcorn (c) tomato (d) yellow
- 38.Make a compound word: sun + ___ (a) bag (b) flower (c) milk (d) chair
- 39.Make a compound word: lunch + ___ (a) milk (b) box (c) pen (d) tree
- 40.Which is a compound word? (a) teacher (b) pencil (c) firefly (d) elephant
Answer key
- thing
- postman
- brush
- castle
- doorbell
- football
- starfish
- classroom
- airport
- room
- bowl
- one
- snowman
- toothbrush
- fly
- cake
- rainbow
- ground
- way
- corn
- waterfall
- port
- fish
- fly
- headache
- bookshelf
- homework
- glasses
- eyebrow
- moonlight
- sunflower
- ache
- board
- paste
- work
- jellyfish
- popcorn
- flower
- box
- firefly
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