What does research mean?
Word: Research
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Research means careful work to find out new facts about a subject, or to check what is already known.
Synonyms: investigation
How do you spell research?
Syllables: re - search
Tricky part: The middle vowel sound is spelt with ea. Students who spell by sound often write reserch.
Watch out for: reserch, reaserch, resurch
Memory tip: Picture divers on the sea floor doing research on fish: the ea of sea sits in the middle of the word.
Research in a sentence
Example 1: Our group did research on the birds that visit the lake in winter.
Example 2: Scientists are doing research to make crops grow with less water.
Example 3: Before buying a laptop, my sister did some research online.
Fun Fact
Years of research by NASA scientists led to Apollo 11 landing the first people on the Moon on 20 July 1969.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) sceintist
b) discovary
c) research
d) experimant
Show answer
c) research. Experiment, scientist and discovery each have a wrong vowel or letters in the wrong order; research is right.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
My sister did a lot of reseach before she wrote her report on volcanoes.
a) sister
b) report
c) reseach
d) volcanoes
Show answer
c) reseach. The r in the middle is hardly heard in British speech, but it is still written.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: research
a) opinion
b) guess
c) rumour
d) study
Show answer
d) study. Research is careful study to find facts.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
ressearch
a) e
b) r
c) c
d) s
Show answer
d) s. Research has only one s, just after the re.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Before writing her project on tigers, Divya did some research. She ____.
a) looked up facts in books and online
b) drew a tiger from memory
c) guessed what tigers eat
d) copied a friend's tiger project
Show answer
a) looked up facts in books and online
2. Scientists carry out research to ____.
a) advertise new products
b) find out facts nobody knew
c) train for sports events
d) repair broken machines
Show answer
b) find out facts nobody knew
