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Spell Bee Word: Crawl


What does crawl mean?

Word: Crawl

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Crawl means to move on your hands and knees, or with your body close to the ground.

How do you spell crawl?

Syllables: crawl

Tricky part: The middle sound is spelt aw, as in saw. Children often write au or leave out the w.

Watch out for: crowl, craul

Memory tip: Picture a baby trying to draw while it crawls: draw and crawl share aw.

Crawl in a sentence

Example 1: My baby brother can crawl now.

Example 2: Ants crawl along the kitchen wall.

Example 3: We had to crawl under the table to find the ball.

Fun Fact

Front crawl is the name of a swimming stroke. It is the stroke most swimmers use in freestyle races because it is the fastest.

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Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

crawl

a) jump
b) creep
c) fly
d) run

Show answer

b) creep. To creep is to move along close to the ground, just like a crawl.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) crawl
b) crawll
c) carwl
d) crawel

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a) crawl. Crawl is c, r, then aw, then one l.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The little snail began to krawl across the leaf.

a) snail
b) krawl
c) leaf
d) little

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b) krawl. A k at the start is the slip here; crawl is c-r-a-w-l.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

wacrl

a) crawl
b) cwarl
c) cralw
d) clawr

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a) crawl. Crawl begins with cr, like crab.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which creature crawls?

a) a sparrow
b) a caterpillar
c) a frog
d) a goldfish

Show answer

b) a caterpillar

2. When traffic crawls, the cars are moving ____.

a) in a circle
b) very fast
c) backwards
d) very slowly

Show answer

d) very slowly

Associated Words

Words that start with cra: crane, crash, crayon

More words from this list

feel, hedgehog, monkey, prince, skirt, town, angry, bring

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