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Spell Bee Word: Caterpillar


What does caterpillar mean?

Word: Caterpillar

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Caterpillar means the young, worm-like stage of a butterfly or moth. It crawls about on many short legs.

How do you spell caterpillar?

Syllables: cat - er - pil - lar

Tricky part: The end is lar, not ler: many children write caterpiller.

Watch out for: caterpiller, caterpillir

Memory tip: A caterpillar can crawl up the side of a car: the word ends in ar, like car.

Caterpillar in a sentence

Example 1: A green caterpillar was crawling up the cabbage stalk.

Example 2: The caterpillar crawled slowly along the branch.

Example 3: Ben kept a caterpillar in a jar for a day and then let it go.

Fun Fact

A caterpillar grows so fast that it sheds its skin several times before it is fully grown.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) caterpillar
b) catapillar
c) caterpellar
d) katerpillar

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a) caterpillar. It starts with a hard c, then er, and the vowel in the third beat is i.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

catterpillar

a) r
b) l
c) t
d) e

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c) t. The word begins with cat, so only one t is needed there.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lirapcatler

a) catrepillar
b) caterpillar
c) caterpilalr
d) catepillrar

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b) caterpillar. Clap the four beats, cat-er-pil-lar, as you read each choice.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

egg, ____, pupa, moth

a) chick
b) tadpole
c) caterpillar
d) kitten

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c) caterpillar. A moth starts as an egg, hatches as a caterpillar, rests as a pupa and comes out as a moth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Caterpillars spend most of their time ____.

a) eating leaves
b) digging holes
c) building nests
d) catching flies

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a) eating leaves

2. What does a caterpillar hatch from?

a) a flower
b) a bud
c) an egg
d) a seed

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c) an egg

Associated Words

Words that end in -lar: collar, scholar, regular, solar, circular

More words from this list

doormat, gloomy, invent, motor, queen, soap, tropical, amaze

Next steps

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