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Spell Bee Word: Crow


What does crow mean?

Word: Crow

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Crow means a large black bird with a loud, rough call.

How do you spell crow?

Syllables: crow

Tricky part: The long o sound at the end is spelt with ow. Children write cro or croe.

Watch out for: cro, croe

Memory tip: Snow and crow rhyme, and they end with the same two letters, so learn them as a pair.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. as the crow flies: In a straight line between two places. Example: "The park is two kilometres from here as the crow flies."

Crow in a sentence

Example 1: A crow sat on the wall and looked at my sandwich.

Example 2: Every morning a crow calls from the neem tree.

Example 3: The crow flew away with a piece of roti.

Fun Fact

In the old story of the thirsty crow, the bird drops stones into a jug until the water rises high enough to drink.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) feather
b) parrot
c) krow
d) pigeon

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c) krow. The hard sound at the start of this bird's name comes from the letter that starts cat.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ocwr

a) crow
b) cowr
c) rcow
d) corw

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a) crow. Only one of these can be said aloud as the name of a black bird.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

carow

a) r
b) a
c) o
d) w

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b) a. Nothing comes between the first two letters of this bird's name.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

sparrow, ____, eagle, ostrich

a) crow
b) ant
c) bee
d) beetle

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a) crow. These birds get bigger at every step.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which sound does a crow make?

a) moo
b) quack
c) neigh
d) caw

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d) caw

2. What does a crow have that a cat does not?

a) eyes
b) a tail
c) wings
d) claws

Show answer

c) wings

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with cr: crate, crawl, cruel, crane, croak

More words from this list

finch, holiday, mouse, puzzle, slice, trolley, anywhere, brown

Next steps

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