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Spell Bee Word: Plant


What does plant mean?

Word: Plant

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Plant means a living thing that grows in soil, with roots, a stem and leaves. It makes its own food using sunlight.

How do you spell plant?

Syllables: plant

Tricky part: It starts with the blend pl. Children sometimes swap the l and the a and write palnt.

Watch out for: palnt, palant

Memory tip: Plant starts with pl, the same two letters that begin play and plate.

Plant in a sentence

Example 1: I water the tulsi plant every morning.

Example 2: Our class grew a bean plant in a glass jar.

Example 3: The plant on the window grew towards the light.

Fun Fact

Plants give out oxygen, the gas that people and animals need to breathe.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) plent
b) flower
c) branch
d) garden

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a) plent. Plant has an a in the middle, the same as ant.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tlanp

a) pltan
b) plant
c) plnat
d) plnta

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b) plant. Put pl at the front, then the other three letters in the order you hear them.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

pla_t

a) m
b) e
c) k
d) n

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d) n. Say pla-nt slowly: you can hear the n hum before the t.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

seed, plant, bud, ____

a) root
b) soil
c) flower
d) pot

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c) flower. A seed grows into a plant, the plant makes a bud, and the bud opens into a flower.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A tiny plant that has just come out of a seed is called a ____.

a) blossom
b) seedling
c) branch
d) thorn

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b) seedling

2. If a plant gets no water for many days, it will ____.

a) dry up
b) get more flowers
c) grow faster
d) make more fruit

Show answer

a) dry up

Associated Words

Words that end in -ant: giant, pleasant, croissant, important, elegant, distant

More words from this list

September, tennis, action, blackberry, climate, elephant, good, listen

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