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Spell Bee Word: Cooking


What does cooking mean?

Word: Cooking

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cooking means the work of making food ready to eat, usually by heating it.

How do you spell cooking?

Syllables: cook - ing

Tricky part: Two o's make the short sound in the middle, the one you hear in book and look. Children who spell by ear often write cuking.

Watch out for: cuking, couking

Memory tip: A cookbook has four o's, two in each half, and cooking keeps the same pair.

Cooking in a sentence

Example 1: Nani's cooking is the best in our whole family.

Example 2: Papa does the cooking on Sundays while Mum reads the paper.

Example 3: We learnt about healthy cooking in our science lesson.

Fun Fact

Cook comes from the Latin word coquere, to cook, and the word kitchen grew from the same root.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

cook

a) ong
b) ign
c) ing
d) eng

Show answer

c) ing. The doing ending is the same one you hear in eating and baking.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) resipe
b) dinnar
c) cooking
d) brekfast

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c) cooking. Recipe has a c in the middle, dinner ends in er, and breakfast has ea.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

gkoicno

a) cookign
b) cookngi
c) cooking
d) cooikng

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c) cooking. Keep the two o's side by side, straight after the c.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our cooking club meets every Wenesday after school.

a) Wenesday
b) cooking
c) school
d) club

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a) Wenesday. Wednesday has a silent d straight after the We.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is part of cooking?

a) folding clothes after a wash
b) stirring dal on the stove
c) sweeping the dusty floor
d) watering plants in the garden

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b) stirring dal on the stove

2. Mum is cooking rice for lunch. What does she need most?

a) a bucket of sand
b) a roll of tape
c) a pot of boiling water
d) a box of crayons

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c) a pot of boiling water

Associated Words

Words that end in -ing: disgusting, snowboarding, skiing, everything, fascinating, interesting

More words from this list

erupt, haircut, launch, outfit, rudder, swimming, airport, bridge

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