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Spell Bee Word: Donkey


What does donkey mean?

Word: Donkey

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Donkey means an animal like a small horse with long ears. It carries loads for people.

How do you spell donkey?

Syllables: don - key

Tricky part: The end is key, the same as a door key. Children often drop the e before the y.

Watch out for: donkee, donkie

Memory tip: The donkey carries a key on its back: donkey ends with the word key.

Donkey in a sentence

Example 1: The donkey carried bags of clothes to the river.

Example 2: A donkey has long, soft ears.

Example 3: The donkey stood quietly under the tree.

Fun Fact

A donkey's large ears help it hear sounds far away and also help keep it cool in hot weather.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The donkey pulled the cart up the hil.

a) cart
b) donkey
c) hil
d) pulled

Show answer

c) hil. Hill ends with two l's.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) donkey
b) dongkey
c) dankey
d) dunkey

Show answer

a) donkey. Donkey has an o after the d, and no g.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

kyendo

a) donkye
b) dnokey
c) donkey
d) dokney

Show answer

c) donkey. Look for the word key in the letters, and put it last.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

donnkey

a) n
b) o
c) k
d) d

Show answer

a) n. Donkey has just one n, before the k.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does a donkey make?

a) hee-haw
b) neigh
c) baa
d) moo

Show answer

a) hee-haw

2. What is a baby donkey called?

a) a kid
b) a calf
c) a cub
d) a foal

Show answer

d) a foal

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with do: doll, doctor, dove, doubt

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furry, kite, painter, safety, suggest, wipe, battery, chart

Next steps

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