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Spell Bee Word: Wheat

Wheat (noun): a plant grown on farms for its grains, which are ground to make flour.

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What does wheat mean?

Word: Wheat

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Wheat means a plant grown on farms for its grains, which are ground to make flour.

How do you spell wheat?

Syllables: wheat

Tricky part: Wheat begins with wh, but the h is not heard, so weat is the slip teachers see most.

Watch out for: weat, wehat

Memory tip: Wheat starts like white: white flour is made from wheat.

Wheat in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma takes our wheat to the mill to get fresh flour.

Example 2: Golden wheat fields cover large parts of Punjab.

Example 3: Brown bread is made from whole wheat flour.

Fun Fact

Wheat is one of the oldest crops farmed by people. It was first grown about 10,000 years ago in West Asia.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) millet
b) harvest
c) wheate
d) barley

Show answer

c) wheate. Wheat finishes with t; there is no e after it.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

whe_t

a) o
b) a
c) e
d) i

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b) a. The long sound in the middle is written e-a, as in meat and seat.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tahew

a) whate
b) wheat
c) whaet
d) wheta

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b) wheat. W and h open the word; e, a and t follow in that order.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

We buy a big sack of wheat every munth.

a) buy
b) sack
c) wheat
d) munth

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d) munth. Month is spelt with an o, even though it sounds like u.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mummy makes this from wheat flour every morning. What is it?

a) an omelette
b) a fruit salad
c) boiled eggs
d) pancakes

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d) pancakes

2. Wheat is a grain. Pick another grain.

a) onion
b) carrot
c) rice
d) mango

Show answer

c) rice

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with w: while, wise, wealthy, wizard, worksheet, without

More words from this list

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

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