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Spell Bee Word: Straw


What does straw mean?

Word: Straw

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Straw means the dry yellow stems of crops such as wheat or rice. A straw is also a thin tube for sipping a drink.

How do you spell straw?

Syllables: straw

Tricky part: The end sound is written aw. Children sometimes write au, or even or, instead.

Watch out for: strau, stroa, straww

Memory tip: Straw is mostly dry wheat stems, so finish it the wheat way: an a, then W for Wheat.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. the last straw: the final small problem that makes someone lose patience Example: "When the dog chewed his new shoes, that was the last straw for Omar."

Straw in a sentence

Example 1: I drank my milkshake with a paper straw.

Example 2: The farmer piled the straw near the cowshed.

Example 3: Birds use bits of straw to build their nests.

Fun Fact

Farmers often feed dry wheat and rice straw to their cattle.

Practise the CREST Way

Sound Check

Which of the following words rhymes with straw?

a) draw
b) stray
c) star
d) show

Show answer

a) draw. Straw and draw finish on the same sound; stray and star only start like it.

Word Fusion

Add the correct option to the following to make a new word: straw_______

a) bery
b) berri
c) bury
d) berry

Show answer

d) berry. Straw joined to berry gives strawberry; berry has a double r.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word? straw

a) raw
b) star
c) wrist
d) rat

Show answer

c) wrist. Spot the i in wrist: straw does not have one.

Spell Spies

Choose the option with no spelling errors:

a) straw, goet, barn, tracter
b) straw, goat, barn, tracter
c) straw, goat, baarn, tractor
d) straw, goat, barn, tractor

Show answer

d) straw, goat, barn, tractor. Only this list spells tractor, barn and goat correctly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which animal might sleep on a bed of straw?

a) a goldfish
b) an octopus
c) a whale
d) a horse

Show answer

d) a horse

2. What can be made by weaving dry straw?

a) a steel spoon
b) a wide sun hat
c) a glass jar
d) a plastic bucket

Show answer

b) a wide sun hat

Associated Words

Words that start with str: stretcher, stripe, strainer

More words from this list

torch, bathroom, comb, front, learn, nice, polar, seed

Next steps

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