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Spell Bee Word: Caravan


What does caravan mean?

Word: Caravan

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Caravan means a group of people with animals or vehicles travelling together, such as camels crossing a desert. A caravan is also a home on wheels pulled by a car.

How do you spell caravan?

Syllables: car - a - van

Tricky part: Caravan has three a's, one in each part, and no other vowel.

Watch out for: carevan, caravaan

Memory tip: Every vowel in caravan is an a: three of them, and nothing else.

Caravan in a sentence

Example 1: A caravan of camels crossed the sand dunes.

Example 2: The family slept in a caravan by the beach.

Example 3: The traders' caravan stopped at the well.

Fun Fact

For hundreds of years, camel caravans carried salt and gold across the Sahara Desert.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) desert
b) camel
c) travel
d) karavan

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d) karavan. Karavan starts with k; the camel caravan starts with c.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

vacaarn

a) caravan
b) acravan
c) carvana
d) cavaran

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a) caravan. Clap car-a-van and write each beat in turn.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

carravan

a) n
b) v
c) r
d) a

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c) r. Caravan has just one r, in car.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

cara_an

a) b
b) v
c) f
d) w

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b) v. The last beat starts with v, as in van.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do people in a desert caravan travel together?

a) to leave their animals behind
b) to stay safe and help each other
c) to make the trip take longer
d) to lose their way in the sand

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b) to stay safe and help each other

2. In which Indian state would you most likely see a camel caravan?

a) Assam
b) Goa
c) Rajasthan
d) Kerala

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c) Rajasthan

Associated Words

Words that start with car: carrot, carry, carpet, caring, carriage, careful

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