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Spell Bee Word: Kangaroo


What does kangaroo mean?

Word: Kangaroo

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Kangaroo means a large animal with strong back legs and a long, thick tail. It moves by hopping, and the mother carries her baby in a pouch.

How do you spell kangaroo?

Syllables: kan - ga - roo

Tricky part: The word ends in a double o, the same as zoo.

Watch out for: kangaru, kangarue

Memory tip: A kangaroo at the zoo: both end in oo, like two round eyes peeping out of a pouch.

Kangaroo in a sentence

Example 1: The kangaroo hopped across the field.

Example 2: A baby kangaroo peeped out of the pouch.

Example 3: We saw a kangaroo on a TV show about wild animals.

Fun Fact

A baby kangaroo is called a joey. It lives in its mother's pouch for months.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) kangoroo
b) kangiroo
c) kangaroo
d) kangeroo

Show answer

c) kangaroo. The vowel straight after the g is the a of apple.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rogaakno

a) kangraoo
b) kagnaroo
c) kanagroo
d) kangaroo

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d) kangaroo. Kanagroo, kagnaroo and kangraoo each swap two letters; the hopping animal's name is the one left.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

kangarroo

a) r
b) g
c) a
d) o

Show answer

a) r. Just one r comes before the oo.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

kan_aroo

a) j
b) c
c) g
d) k

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c) g. The hard sound in the middle is the one at the start of goat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which country do wild kangaroos live?

a) India
b) Australia
c) Egypt
d) Brazil

Show answer

b) Australia

2. What does a kangaroo use its long tail for?

a) to balance when it hops
b) to dig deep burrows
c) to catch fish in rivers
d) to climb up tall trees

Show answer

a) to balance when it hops

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with k: kiwi, kindergarten, kingfisher, keen

More words from this list

number, regular, spider, vanilla, arrow, certain, dustbin, grandfather

Next steps

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