What does choreographer mean?
Word: Choreographer
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Choreographer means a person who plans the steps and movements of a dance.
How do you spell choreographer?
Syllables: cho - re - og - ra - pher
Tricky part: The beginning fools people. The k sound is written ch, so koreographer is a common slip.
Watch out for: koreographer, coreographer
Memory tip: Think of the chorus in a school musical, singing and dancing together. A choreographer opens with those same four letters.
Choreographer in a sentence
Example 1: The choreographer taught the whole class a folk dance for the school concert.
Example 2: After years of dance lessons, Tara hopes to work as a choreographer for films.
Example 3: A good choreographer can make forty dancers move as one on a tiny stage.
Fun Fact
The word joins two Greek ideas, dance and writing. Long before video, dance steps were sometimes set down on paper with special signs, a skill known as dance notation.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
chor_og_apher
a) i, r
b) e, r
c) e, l
d) a, r
Show answer
b) e, r. The vowel you hear after chor is the one in see, and the second gap is the letter that follows the g in grape.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The choreografer asked the cast to repeat the sequence until every turn was perfect.
a) sequence
b) choreografer
c) perfect
d) repeat
Show answer
b) choreografer. The f sound near the end needs a two-letter spelling here.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) pharmacist
b) architect
c) acountant
d) choreographer
Show answer
c) acountant. Accountant has two c's after the a.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
rgeoaphcheorr
a) choreographer
b) photographer
c) geographer
d) choreography
Show answer
a) choreographer. Choreography has a y, photographer has a t, and geographer has no c.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. On the first day of rehearsals, what does a choreographer do?
a) sells tickets at the front gate
b) tunes the guitars backstage
c) sews the costumes for the cast
d) shows the dancers their moves
Show answer
d) shows the dancers their moves
2. Which skill matters most to a choreographer?
a) a strong sense of rhythm
b) a good memory for dates
c) a steady hand for drawing
d) a quick head for sums
Show answer
a) a strong sense of rhythm
