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Spell Bee Word: Salt


What does salt mean?

Word: Salt

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Salt means white grains that give food its taste. Sea water has salt in it.

How do you spell salt?

Syllables: salt

Tricky part: It looks easy, but the vowel is a, even though many people say it with an o sound.

Watch out for: solt, sault

Memory tip: Picture a salt shaker with a big A on its lid, so you never write an o.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. take it with a pinch of salt: do not believe it fully Example: "Rohan says he saw a dragon, so take that with a pinch of salt."

Salt in a sentence

Example 1: Please pass the salt.

Example 2: Add a little salt to the dal.

Example 3: A lot of India's salt is made from sea water in Gujarat.

Fun Fact

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi walked to Dandi by the sea and made salt there, to protest against a British tax on salt.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) pepper
b) salte
c) honey
d) sugar

Show answer

b) salte. Salt ends with the t; nothing comes after it.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Please put some sallt on my corn.

a) put
b) corn
c) sallt
d) Please

Show answer

c) sallt. Salt has just one l, sitting before the t.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

sea water, sunshine, ____

a) flour
b) salt
c) rice
d) ice

Show answer

b) salt. When the sun dries sea water, white grains are left behind, and those grains are salt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If you stir salt into a glass of water, the salt will ____.

a) make the water sweet
b) mix in and vanish
c) float on top
d) turn the water red

Show answer

b) mix in and vanish

2. What looks like salt but tastes sweet?

a) chilli powder
b) turmeric
c) pepper
d) sugar

Show answer

d) sugar

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Next steps

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