What does reporter mean?
Word: Reporter
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Reporter means a person whose job is to find out about news and write or speak about it for a newspaper, TV channel, radio or website.
Synonyms: correspondent
How do you spell reporter?
Syllables: re - port - er
Tricky part: Many job words, such as doctor and actor, end in or, so students write reportor. This one takes er.
Watch out for: reportor, repoter, reportar
Memory tip: Doctor and actor take or, but a reporter works for a newspaper, and both words end in er.
Reporter in a sentence
Example 1: A reporter interviewed our principal about the new science lab.
Example 2: The TV reporter stood in the rain to describe the flooded street.
Example 3: When I grow up, I want to be a sports reporter at the Olympics.
Fun Fact
A young reporter who is new to the job is sometimes called a cub reporter, after the young of a lion or a bear.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: reporter
a) journalist
b) farmer
c) plumber
d) pilot
Show answer
a) journalist. A journalist gathers and writes the news, just like a reporter.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) photografer
b) carpinter
c) musisian
d) reporter
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d) reporter. Photographer uses ph for the f sound, carpenter has an e after the p and musician uses c for the sh sound; reporter is right.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
r_p_rter
a) i, o
b) a, o
c) e, a
d) e, o
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d) e, o. The first vowel is the short e of red, and the middle one is the o of port.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
pretrore
a) protector
b) repeater
c) reporter
d) operator
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c) reporter. Repeater and operator both need an a, and protector needs a c; the eight letters give reporter.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where would you most likely see a reporter at work?
a) in an operating theatre, doing surgery
b) in a bakery, kneading dough
c) in a cockpit, flying a plane
d) at a cricket match, talking to the players
Show answer
d) at a cricket match, talking to the players
2. A weather reporter mostly tells us about ____.
a) cricket and football scores
b) traffic jams on main roads
c) rain, heat and storms
d) prices in the market
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c) rain, heat and storms
