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Spell Bee Word: Album


What does album mean?

Word: Album

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Album means a book for keeping photos or stamps. It is also a set of songs put out together.

How do you spell album?

Syllables: al - bum

Tricky part: It ends in um, not am or em.

Watch out for: albam, albem

Memory tip: Album and drum finish the same way, with um. Picture a drum on the cover of an album.

Album in a sentence

Example 1: Nani showed us her old photo album.

Example 2: I stick my stamps in an album.

Example 3: The band made a new album.

Fun Fact

In ancient Rome, an album was a white board for notices; the Latin word album means white.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) ribbon
b) tunnel
c) olbum
d) button

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c) olbum. Olbum is a sound slip: the first letter of album is a.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

umbla

a) balum
b) album
c) labum
d) ablum

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b) album. End with um, as in drum, and put the other letters before it.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

allbum

a) u
b) b
c) l
d) m

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c) l. Album needs only one l.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Nani showed us her old photo alpum.

a) photo
b) alpum
c) Nani
d) showed

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b) alpum. The middle sound is a b, as in ball, not a p.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grandpa turns the pages of an old album and smiles. What is he most likely looking at?

a) the train timetable
b) a recipe for halwa
c) the day's newspaper
d) photos of the family

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d) photos of the family

2. A singer brings out a new album. What will her fans get?

a) some new songs
b) some new stamps
c) a new comic book
d) a new photo frame

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a) some new songs

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with a: avoid, account, actor, avocado, attack, above

More words from this list

branch, coo, family, hair, marry, pond, shirt, tiger

Next steps

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