Spell Bee Word: Banana

What does banana mean?

Word: Banana

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Banana means a long, curved fruit with a yellow skin and soft, sweet flesh inside.

How do you spell banana?

Syllables: ba - na - na

Tricky part: Children often add an extra n. Each part of banana has just one n: ba-na-na.

Watch out for: bananna, bannana

Memory tip: Sing it like a song, ba-na-na: each of the last two beats starts with one n, never two together.

Idioms and Phrases

1. go bananas: To become very excited or silly. Example: "The children went bananas when the clown came on stage."

Banana in a sentence

Example 1: Ammi packed a banana in my lunch box.

Example 2: The monkey grabbed the banana and ran up the tree.

Example 3: A ripe banana has small brown spots on it.

Fun Fact

India grows more bananas than any other country in the world.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

anbnaa

a) bnaana
b) banaan
c) baanan
d) banana

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) banan
b) orange
c) papaya
d) cherry

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ban_na

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before you eat a banana, you ____ it.

a) boil
b) grate
c) peel
d) squeeze

2. Many bananas growing together on one stalk are called a ____.

a) bunch
b) pack
c) flock
d) herd