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Spell Bee Word: Bamboo


What does bamboo mean?

Word: Bamboo

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Bamboo means a very tall plant with hard, hollow stems that are used to make baskets, fences and furniture.

How do you spell bamboo?

Syllables: bam - boo

Tricky part: We hear an m sound before the b, and it is spelt with m, not n.

Watch out for: banboo, bammboo

Memory tip: A panda munching bamboo goes mmm, so the m comes before the b.

Bamboo in a sentence

Example 1: The panda sat chewing a bamboo shoot.

Example 2: Dadi carries vegetables home in a bamboo basket.

Example 3: Bamboo grows thick along the river bank.

Fun Fact

Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth; some kinds can grow more than 30 centimetres in a single day.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) panda
b) monkey
c) forest
d) bambu

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d) bambu. The end of bamboo is a double o, not a u.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

obamob

a) babmoo
b) bamboo
c) bamobo
d) bomabo

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b) bamboo. Say bamboo slowly and set the letters out in the order you hear them: there are two b's and two o's to place.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

b_mboo

a) a
b) e
c) i
d) u

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a) a. The first part sounds like bam, with the a of cat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The bansuri is made from bamboo. What is a bansuri?

a) a drum
b) a flute
c) a sitar
d) a bell

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b) a flute

2. Bamboo looks like a tree, but it is really a very large kind of ____.

a) bush
b) fern
c) creeper
d) grass

Show answer

d) grass

Associated Words

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Next steps

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