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Spell Bee Word: Prawn

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What does prawn mean?

Word: Prawn

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Prawn means a small sea or river animal with a thin shell and long feelers, often cooked as food.

How do you spell prawn?

Syllables: prawn

Tricky part: The middle sound is spelt aw, not or or au. Some children also add an e at the end.

Watch out for: praun, prorn, prawne

Memory tip: A prawn and a claw share the same aw.

Prawn in a sentence

Example 1: Grandma cooked a spicy prawn curry with coconut.

Example 2: The fishermen sorted the prawns into baskets at dawn.

Example 3: Amara will not eat prawns because she is allergic to them.

Fun Fact

Prawn cocktail, prawns in a pink sauce served in a glass, was one of the best-loved starters in British restaurants in the 1970s, and prawn cocktail crisps are still sold today.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) oister
b) lobstar
c) sardene
d) prawn

Show answer

d) prawn. Lobster, oyster and sardine are all sea foods too, but only prawn is spelt right here.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

wnarp

a) prawn
b) pawn
c) warp
d) drawn

Show answer

a) prawn. Pawn and warp leave a letter unused, and drawn needs a d that is not there.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

prawn

a) mussel
b) shrimp
c) tuna
d) eel

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b) shrimp. A shrimp is a small shellfish very like a prawn; eels, mussels and tuna are not.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in a market would you buy fresh prawns?

a) at the flower stall
b) at the fruit stall
c) at the spice stall
d) at the fish stall

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d) at the fish stall

2. Which sea animal is a close relative of the prawn?

a) crab
b) octopus
c) jellyfish
d) squid

Show answer

a) crab

Associated Words

More Class 4 Summer Spell Bee words starting with pr: prevention, presentable, precede, prepare, prehistoric, presidential

More words from this list

scrape, tone, accurate, builder, deliver, exact, mechanic, possible

Next steps

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