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Spell Bee Word: Comic


What does comic mean?

Word: Comic

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Comic means a magazine or book that tells a story mostly through drawings. It can also be a performer who tells jokes on a stage.

How do you spell comic?

Syllables: com - ic

Tricky part: The hard sound at the end is written with a c alone. Children often add a k, as they would in duck.

Watch out for: comik, comick

Memory tip: Close the comic at the c: no k is needed.

Comic in a sentence

Example 1: My brother saves his pocket money to buy a new comic each month.

Example 2: The comic had a funny cat as its hero.

Example 3: Lina drew her own comic about a robot who loves mangoes.

Fun Fact

The Beano, a British comic for children, first came out in 1938 and is still published today.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

micoc

a) cmoic
b) coimc
c) comic
d) comci

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c) comic. It names a magazine that tells its story in pictures, and it starts and ends with the same letter.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

c_m_c

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

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c) o, i. The first beat has the short o of top, and the second the short i of sit.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

comic

a) el
b) ol
c) al
d) il

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c) al. Comical means funny, and musical has the same ending.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) favourite
b) librery
c) cartoon
d) comic

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b) librery. Library ends in ary, so librery is the misspelt one.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would you expect to find inside a comic?

a) bus timetables
b) speech bubbles
c) multiplication tables
d) street maps

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b) speech bubbles

2. A comic at a school show hears lots of laughter. What does that tell her?

a) the hall is too cold
b) her jokes are working
c) the show has ended
d) the lights are too dim

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b) her jokes are working

Associated Words

Words that start with com: compass, company, complain, comfort, communication, comma

More words from this list

divide, funny, joyous, native, rally, spoil, wink, beige

Next steps

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