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Spell Bee Word: Guava


What does guava mean?

Word: Guava

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Guava means a round fruit with green or yellow skin and soft, sweet flesh.

How do you spell guava?

Syllables: gua - va

Tricky part: The start sounds like gw, but it is written gu. Children write gwava or gava.

Watch out for: gwava, gava

Memory tip: Picture a penguin eating a guava. Penguin has the same gw sound, and it is written gu there too.

Guava in a sentence

Example 1: Nani cut a guava and added a little salt.

Example 2: Riya packed a guava in her lunch box.

Example 3: Our yard smells lovely when the guava is ripe.

Fun Fact

Weight for weight, a guava holds more vitamin C than an orange.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

vuaga

a) guava
b) gauva
c) guaav
d) guvaa

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a) guava. Start with the hard g and keep going with the sounds you hear.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) cherry
b) papaya
c) bannana
d) guava

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c) bannana. Banana has single letters all the way, with no double n.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

guav_

a) a
b) u
c) o
d) e

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a) a. This fruit's name closes the way papaya does.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

We shared a ripe guawa at the fair.

a) fair
b) shared
c) ripe
d) guawa

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d) guawa. Put your top teeth on your lip for the sound in the middle: it is a v.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these grows on a tree, just as a guava does?

a) carrot
b) onion
c) mango
d) potato

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c) mango

2. You cut a guava open. What will you find inside?

a) one big hard stone
b) a thick brown shell
c) lots of small seeds
d) clear sweet water

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c) lots of small seeds

Associated Words

More Class 1 Summer Spell Bee words starting with g: glue, glass, gallery, gull, green, grass

More words from this list

maple, poet, sharp, throw, aeroplane, boat, coffee, explain

Next steps

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