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Spell Bee Word: Ink

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What does ink mean?

Word: Ink

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Ink means the coloured liquid inside a pen that you write or draw with.

How do you spell ink?

Syllables: ink

Tricky part: Children sometimes add a g after the n, writing ingk, because the n sound runs into the k.

Watch out for: ingk, inke

Memory tip: There is no g hiding in ink: it is not like sing or ring.

Ink in a sentence

Example 1: My fountain pen has blue ink.

Example 2: Ink spilt all over my notebook.

Example 3: The printer has run out of black ink.

Fun Fact

A black drawing ink is called India ink, or Indian ink in Britain, even though much of it was first made in China.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

_nk

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

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c) i. Only i makes a real word here: ink.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) crayon
b) marker
c) inck
d) sketch

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c) inck. Ink ends in n-k; it needs no c.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

bottle, ____, pen, page

a) ink
b) chalk
c) pencil
d) crayon

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a) ink. Ink is poured from a bottle into a fountain pen, and the pen puts it on the page.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these does NOT need ink to write?

a) a pencil
b) a felt-tip pen
c) a fountain pen
d) a ballpoint pen

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a) a pencil

2. An octopus squirts ink to ____.

a) catch the sunlight
b) grow bigger
c) find fresh water
d) hide from danger

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d) hide from danger

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with in: instrument, invite, inside

More words from this list

mischief, publish, tractor, again, cafeteria, detail, galaxy, husband

Next steps

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