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Spell Bee Word: Sunflower


Basic Details

Word: Sunflower

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A tall plant with a large, round flower made of yellow petals around a dark centre full of seeds.

How to Spell Sunflower

Syllables: sun - flow - er

Tricky part: Flower and flour sound the same, so children sometimes write sunflour. The ow in flower is the part to watch.

Watch out for: sunflour, sunflowr, sonflower

Memory tip: Write sun, then the flower you water in the garden, not the flour you knead into dough.

Usage Examples

Example 1: The sunflowers in our school garden are taller than me.

Example 2: Dadi saves sunflower seeds every year to plant in the monsoon.

Example 3: Bees buzzed around the big yellow sunflower.

Fun Fact

Young sunflower plants turn their heads to follow the sun across the sky during the day. Once fully grown, most of them stop moving and face east.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) sunflower
b) sunflour
c) sonflower
d) sunflawer

Show answer

a) sunflower. It is sun joined to flower, the plant, with ow.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) butterfly
b) sunshine
c) rainbow
d) sunflowr

Show answer

d) sunflowr. Flower needs its e before the r.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

wfloresnu

a) sunflower
b) snuflower
c) sunflowre
d) sunfolwer

Show answer

a) sunflower. Pull out sun, and the letters left spell flower.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What colour are the petals of a sunflower usually?

a) black
b) yellow
c) blue
d) green

Show answer

b) yellow

2. Sunflower seeds can be used to make ____.

a) cooking oil
b) glass
c) steel
d) paper clips

Show answer

a) cooking oil

Associated Words

bushyjoyelegantprincessserious
losecelebrateaccuseaffordblueprint

Next steps

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