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Spell Bee Word: Seaweed


What does seaweed mean?

Word: Seaweed

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Seaweed means plants that grow in the sea, often green, brown or red and slippery to touch.

How do you spell seaweed?

Syllables: sea - weed

Tricky part: The first half is the sea itself, spelt ea as at the beach, not see. The two halves join with no space.

Watch out for: seeweed, saeweed

Memory tip: Picture the waves at the beach where this plant grows: write the s-e-a of the sea first, and leave no gap after it.

Seaweed in a sentence

Example 1: The waves left green seaweed all over the beach in Wales.

Example 2: Be careful, the seaweed on these rocks is slippery.

Example 3: Little fish swam in and out of the seaweed.

Fun Fact

Many people eat seaweed. Nori, the thin dark sheet wrapped around sushi rolls, is made from dried seaweed.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) seawead
b) seaweed
c) seawied
d) seaweid

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b) seaweed. The second half has two e side by side, like the weeds in a garden.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

seaweede

a) e
b) a
c) w
d) d

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a) e. Seaweed stops at the d; there is nothing after it.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

sea_eed

a) f
b) w
c) r
d) n

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b) w. The second half starts with w, the same letter as in wave and water.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pick the one that is a seaweed.

a) moss
b) ivy
c) kelp
d) fern

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c) kelp

2. Which sea animal often hides in seaweed?

a) a crab
b) a shark
c) a whale
d) a dolphin

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a) a crab

Associated Words

Words that end in -eed: bleed, indeed, succeed, proceed

More words from this list

sunflower, wizard, blow, corner, famous, hare, pass, science

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