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Spell Bee Word: Acorn


What does acorn mean?

Word: Acorn

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Acorn means the small, smooth nut of an oak tree. It sits in a little cup at one end.

How do you spell acorn?

Syllables: a - corn

Tricky part: The a at the start says its own name, so some children write aycorn or eycorn. It is a plain a with nothing after it.

Watch out for: aycorn, eycorn, acron

Memory tip: Acorn starts with the same a as apron and April: one letter that says its own name.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. Great oaks from little acorns grow: Big and important things often start from something small. Example: "Her bakery began with one oven at home - great oaks from little acorns grow."

Acorn in a sentence

Example 1: We collected acorns under the oak tree in the hill station park.

Example 2: The squirrel held an acorn in its tiny paws.

Example 3: Each acorn wore a rough little cap on its top.

Fun Fact

Squirrels bury acorns to eat in winter. The ones they forget can sprout and grow into new oak trees.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) acorn
b) chesnut
c) pomegranite
d) walnutt

Show answer

a) acorn. Chestnut keeps a t before the n, pomegranate ends in ate and walnut has one t, which leaves acorn.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

a_o_n

a) k, r
b) c, r
c) c, w
d) k, l

Show answer

b) c, r. The k sound is spelt with a c, as in cat, and the o comes before the r.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A jay flew off with an acorne held tightly in its beak.

a) acorne
b) tightly
c) flew
d) beak

Show answer

a) acorne. The word stops at the n of corn; nothing comes after it.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Acorns usually fall to the ground in ____.

a) spring
b) midwinter
c) autumn
d) early summer

Show answer

c) autumn

2. An acorn is closest in kind to a ____.

a) pine needle
b) pebble
c) hazelnut
d) mushroom

Show answer

c) hazelnut

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Next steps

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