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Spell Bee Word: Housefly

Housefly (noun): a common small fly with two wings that buzzes around homes and food.

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What does housefly mean?

Word: Housefly

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Housefly means a common small fly with two wings that buzzes around homes and food.

How do you spell housefly?

Syllables: house - fly

Tricky part: The e in the middle is silent, so many children leave it out.

Watch out for: housfly, howsfly, housefli

Memory tip: Do not lose the e in the middle: picture it as a doormat at the front door that you step over on the way in.

Housefly in a sentence

Example 1: Cover the food so a housefly cannot sit on it.

Example 2: A housefly kept buzzing near the window.

Example 3: Mum waved away the housefly with a newspaper.

Fun Fact

A housefly tastes its food with tiny hairs on its feet.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) houseflie
b) housefly
c) housefley
d) howsefly

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b) housefly. The ou sound is spelt o-u, and the word ends in a plain y.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

esfulyho

a) housefyl
b) huosefly
c) housefly
d) hosuefly

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c) housefly. The y goes last.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

house_ly

a) s
b) b
c) f
d) p

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c) f. Only f finishes the insect's name; the other letters make no word.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A housefly landed on my sanwich at lunch.

a) landed
b) housefly
c) lunch
d) sanwich

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d) sanwich. Sandwich has a d after the n, as in sand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is a housefly bad for our health?

a) it eats clothes
b) it bites people
c) it stings people
d) it spreads germs

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d) it spreads germs

2. A baby housefly that looks like a tiny worm is called a ____.

a) caterpillar
b) cub
c) tadpole
d) maggot

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d) maggot

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ho: hospital, hornbill, hornet, honeybee, hope, honey

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Next steps

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