Phonics: Lesson 1 - Identifying Compound Words

Introduction

Today, you will identify compound words.

We can form compound words by joining two or more smaller words together to make a new word. Often, the meaning of each smaller word can help us with the meaning of the compound word. The word daytime means “a time in the day.”

home+work=homework
down+hill=downhill
class+room=classroom
butter+fly=butterfly

In Your Notebook: Please draw a two-column chart. Write day and night in the columns at the top of the chart.

Read each word. Sort the word based on its word part. After completing the sort, please copy this sort into your phonics/word study journal.