What does magazine mean?
Word: Magazine
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Magazine means a paper booklet of articles, pictures and puzzles that comes out again and again with new pages each time.
How do you spell magazine?
Syllables: mag - a - zine
Tricky part: The last part is said like 'zeen', so children often write magazeen or magazene. That part is spelt zine.
Watch out for: magazeen, magazene
Memory tip: Imagine a sardine reading a magazine: the two words end the same way, even though that end is said 'een'.
Magazine in a sentence
Example 1: Grandma reads the cookery magazine from cover to cover.
Example 2: My science magazine had a page about how bees make honey.
Example 3: Our school prints its own magazine at the end of every term.
Fun Fact
Magazine comes from an Arabic word for storehouses: a magazine was thought of as a store packed with many different articles.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
gazmanie
a) gamazine
b) magzaine
c) mazagine
d) magazine
Show answer
d) magazine. Start with the m you hear first; the g comes before the z.
Word Cookie
Fill in the two missing letters to complete the word:
m_g_zine
a) a, i
b) e, a
c) a, a
d) i, a
Show answer
c) a, a. Two a's sit in the first half, one after the m and one after the g.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) librery
b) newspapper
c) magazine
d) cartoone
Show answer
c) magazine. Newspaper has one p in the middle, library has ar before the y, and cartoon ends in plain oon.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
maggazine
a) z
b) g
c) n
d) a
Show answer
b) g. Magazine has a lone g between its first two vowels.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A magazine that comes out once every seven days is called a ____ magazine.
a) yearly
b) monthly
c) daily
d) weekly
Show answer
d) weekly
2. Which of these is a magazine most likely to have on its cover?
a) a bright photo and big headlines
b) a railway timetable and fares
c) a list of exam marks
d) a map of the school building
Show answer
a) a bright photo and big headlines
