What does fodder mean?
Word: Fodder
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Fodder means food such as hay, straw or green plants given to cows, horses and other farm animals.
How do you spell fodder?
Syllables: fod - der
Tricky part: A soft sound closes this word, and it could be spelt several ways, so students write foddar or foddur.
Watch out for: foddar, foddur
Memory tip: End it as you end farmer, because a farmer is the one who brings it to the herd.
Fodder in a sentence
Example 1: Once the crop was cut, Ramesh stacked dry wheat stalks for his buffaloes as fodder.
Example 2: The villagers stored extra fodder before the long monsoon.
Example 3: Green maize fodder keeps the dairy cows healthy.
Fun Fact
Fodder and food grew from the same old Germanic root, so the two words are distant cousins.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
foodder
a) r
b) d
c) e
d) o
Show answer
d) o. The short vowel in the first beat is written once, unlike the long one in food.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
fodder
a) harvest
b) feed
c) plough
d) manure
Show answer
b) feed. Feed is the farmer's everyday word for what the animals eat.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) tractor
b) granary
c) pastuer
d) fodder
Show answer
c) pastuer. Grazing land is pasture, which closes like nature.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Every winter the farmer keeps his foder in a shed behind the stable.
a) foder
b) stable
c) farmer
d) shed
Show answer
a) foder. The short o is a clue that the consonant after it is doubled, as in ladder and rudder.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is most likely to buy fodder?
a) a baker with a busy town shop
b) a teacher with a new science lab
c) a tailor with two sewing machines
d) a dairy farmer with twenty cows
Show answer
d) a dairy farmer with twenty cows
2. When would a farmer worry most about running short of fodder?
a) after weeks of good rain
b) during a long dry spell
c) just after a big harvest
d) when fields are full of grass
Show answer
b) during a long dry spell
