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Spell Bee Word: Saucepan

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What does saucepan mean?

Word: Saucepan

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Saucepan means a deep, round cooking pot with a long handle, used to boil milk or make sauces.

How do you spell saucepan?

Syllables: sauce - pan

Tricky part: It begins with sauce, and the aw sound in sauce is spelt au. Children write sospan or sawcepan.

Watch out for: sospan, sawcepan, sorcepan

Memory tip: Say August, then sauce: they open with the same au.

Saucepan in a sentence

Example 1: Mum boiled milk in a small saucepan.

Example 2: Hold the saucepan by its handle.

Example 3: The saucepan was too hot to touch.

Fun Fact

The word sauce comes from a Latin word meaning salted, because early sauces were salty.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) bucket
b) saucpan
c) ladle
d) kettle

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b) saucpan. Sauce keeps its e, even with pan stuck on the end.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

sau_epan

a) c
b) k
c) s
d) z

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a) c. The s sound in sauce is made by a c.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pecsuana

a) saupecan
b) sauepcan
c) saucpean
d) saucepan

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d) saucepan. Eight letters, and a turns up twice: once in sauce and once in pan.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mum made hot choclate in the saucepan.

a) made
b) saucepan
c) choclate
d) hot

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c) choclate. Chocolate has an o after the c: choc-o-late.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is usually heated in a saucepan?

a) soup
b) fruit
c) salad
d) toast

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a) soup

2. What is put on top of a saucepan to cover it?

a) a cork
b) a lid
c) a sheet
d) a cap

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b) a lid

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with sa: salty, sack, sandstorm, sail, sandy

More words from this list

stone, bean, cloudy, escape, grunt, large, sacred, steady

Next steps

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