What does noodle mean?
Word: Noodle
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Noodle means a long, thin strip of food made from flour, eggs or rice and cooked in water, often eaten in soups. It is usually used in the plural, noodles.
How do you spell noodle?
Syllables: noo - dle
Tricky part: The end sounds like 'dul', but it is spelt d, l, e. Children often write noodel or noodal.
Watch out for: noodel, noodal
Memory tip: Write the e last, like the steam that curls up off the top of a hot bowl of noodles.
Noodle in a sentence
Example 1: My little brother slurped up one slippery noodle and laughed.
Example 2: Our school canteen serves hot vegetable noodles on Fridays.
Example 3: A long noodle slid off my fork and back into the bowl.
Fun Fact
Noodles have been eaten in China for thousands of years; in 2005 scientists reported a bowl of millet noodles found there, about 4,000 years old.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell Spies
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) bottle
b) nudle
c) kettle
d) puddle
Show answer
b) nudle. The long sound after the n is written with two o's; puddle, bottle and kettle are spelt correctly.
Sound Check
Which of the following words rhymes with noodle?
a) poodle
b) cradle
c) puddle
d) medal
Show answer
a) poodle. Poodle has the same long sound and the same ending; puddle, cradle and medal have other vowels.
Jumble Tumble
Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a food?
a) loduon
b) lodeon
c) lodoan
d) lodeen
Show answer
b) lodeon. Only lodeon holds exactly the six letters of noodle; each of the others has one letter wrong.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
noodle
a) node
b) lend
c) done
d) loud
Show answer
d) loud. Look for a u in noodle: there is none, so loud is out.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. People in China and Japan often eat noodles with ___.
a) a whisk
b) chopsticks
c) a funnel
d) a straw
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b) chopsticks
2. Noodles are a lot like which other food?
a) spaghetti
b) biscuits
c) pancakes
d) sandwiches
Show answer
a) spaghetti
