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Spell Bee Word: Bake


What does bake mean?

Word: Bake

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Bake means to cook food such as bread, cake or biscuits in an oven.

How do you spell bake?

Syllables: bake

Tricky part: Bake ends with a letter you cannot hear, a silent e. Children who spell by sound often leave it off and write bak.

Watch out for: bayk, baik

Memory tip: The silent e at the end is like the oven door: leave it off and nothing gets baked.

Bake in a sentence

Example 1: Mumma will bake a cake for my birthday.

Example 2: We watched the bread bake slowly in the oven.

Example 3: Can we bake nankhatai for Diwali this year?

Fun Fact

People in ancient Egypt baked bread in clay ovens thousands of years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) butter
b) bread
c) backe
d) sugar

Show answer

c) backe. Bake has no c: the k sound is spelt with k alone.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

mix, roll, cut, ____

a) plant
b) swim
c) sweep
d) bake

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d) bake. For biscuits you mix the dough, roll it flat, cut out shapes and then bake them.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

baake

a) e
b) k
c) a
d) b

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c) a. Bake has only one a, between the b and the k.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which food do we usually bake?

a) a pizza
b) a milkshake
c) a salad
d) a fruit chaat

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a) a pizza

2. After you bake biscuits, what should you wear to lift the hot tray?

a) woolly socks
b) a raincoat
c) sunglasses
d) oven gloves

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d) oven gloves

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ba: barge, bathe, bamboo, banana, balloon, barber

More words from this list

carrot, decorate, flower, iron, niece, reveal, sparrow, violet

Next steps

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