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Spell Bee Word: Pottery


What does pottery mean?

Word: Pottery

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pottery means pots, cups, plates and other things shaped from wet clay and then baked hard. It is also the work of making such things.

Synonyms: earthenware

How do you spell pottery?

Syllables: pot - ter - y

Tricky part: The t is doubled in the middle, and the letter before the r is e, not a. Many children write potery with one t.

Watch out for: potery, pottary, pottry

Memory tip: Picture two clay pots standing side by side on a shelf: they are the two t's in the middle of pottery.

Pottery in a sentence

Example 1: We bought blue pottery from a shop in Jaipur.

Example 2: The pottery class made small diyas for Diwali.

Example 3: Careful, that pottery bowl will crack if you drop it.

Fun Fact

Broken pottery turns up all over Harappa and other Indus Valley sites: red pots painted with black patterns, made more than 4,000 years ago.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) weeving
b) sketsh
c) pottery
d) paynting

Show answer

c) pottery. Weaving has ea, painting has ai, and sketch ends in tch, so pottery is the one spelt right.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

p_ttery

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

Show answer

d) o. Pottery starts with pot, the clay pot a potter makes.

Word Makeup

Choose the correct suffix to form a word:

potter

a) ie
b) ey
c) y
d) ee

Show answer

c) y. Baker becomes bakery and potter becomes pottery: a single letter is all it takes.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

pottery

a) furniture
b) ceramics
c) jewellery
d) textiles

Show answer

b) ceramics. Ceramics are things made from baked clay, just as pottery is.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would you find at a pottery stall?

a) brass bells and lamps
b) wooden toys and boxes
c) clay pots and diyas
d) cotton kurtas and shawls

Show answer

c) clay pots and diyas

2. Pottery, weaving and carpentry are all kinds of ____.

a) games
b) lessons
c) machines
d) crafts

Show answer

d) crafts

Associated Words

answeranchorraisedisappeartheory
primarydictionaryhurricanemanualcourgette

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