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Spell Bee Word: Leaf


What does leaf mean?

Word: Leaf

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Leaf means the flat, thin, usually green part of a plant that grows from a stem or branch. The plural is leaves.

How do you spell leaf?

Syllables: leaf

Tricky part: The tricky part comes when there is more than one: the f changes to v and es is added, so one leaf becomes two leaves, not leafs.

Watch out for: leafes, leavs

Memory tip: Picture one leaf turning into a pile of leaves: when many fall, the f flies away and v-e-s takes its place.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. turn over a new leaf: To start behaving in a better way. Example: "Arjun turned over a new leaf and now finishes his homework on time."

Leaf in a sentence

Example 1: A dry leaf fell from the neem tree.

Example 2: Amma served idli on a banana leaf.

Example 3: I pressed a red leaf inside my notebook.

Fun Fact

The national flag of Canada has a big red maple leaf in the middle.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) leaf
b) laef
c) leef
d) lefe

Show answer

a) leaf. In leaf the long ee sound is spelt e and a, side by side.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

leafe

a) f
b) e
c) a
d) l

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b) e. The word stops at f, so the last e is not needed.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

____, twig, branch, tree

a) forest
b) leaf
c) garden
d) trunk

Show answer

b) leaf. A leaf grows on a twig, a twig grows on a branch, and a branch grows on a tree.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The caterpiller munched a fresh green leaf.

a) caterpiller
b) munched
c) fresh
d) leaf

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a) caterpiller. Caterpillar ends in ar, not er.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most leaves make food for the plant with the help of ____.

a) starlight
b) lamplight
c) sunlight
d) moonlight

Show answer

c) sunlight

2. Which animal eats leaves from the tops of tall trees?

a) a lion
b) a giraffe
c) an eagle
d) a crocodile

Show answer

b) a giraffe

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with l: listen, lark, lotus, lonely, lunch, lemonade

More words from this list

pasta, sauce, table, yawn, before, chief, drain, gas

Next steps

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