What does sandcastle mean?
Word: Sandcastle
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Sandcastle means a small model of a castle that you build out of wet sand on a beach.
How do you spell sandcastle?
Syllables: sand - cas - tle
Tricky part: The t in the middle is silent, so children who spell by sound leave it out.
Watch out for: sandcasle, sandcassle
Memory tip: Picture a tall tower in the middle of your sandcastle: the t is that tower, standing quietly but always there.
Sandcastle in a sentence
Example 1: We spent the whole morning building a sandcastle at Juhu Beach.
Example 2: The sea washed our sandcastle away by evening.
Example 3: Dhruv decorated his sandcastle with shells and a paper flag.
Fun Fact
Sand holds together best when it is damp. Dry sand slides apart and very wet sand runs, so sandcastle builders mix in just a little water.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) sandcastle
b) sandcastel
c) sancastle
d) sandkastle
Show answer
a) sandcastle. Sand and castle are both spelt in full; nothing is dropped where they meet.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tsaldcanes
a) sandcastle
b) sandcsatle
c) sadncastle
d) sandcatsle
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a) sandcastle. Two beach words are mixed up here: one is what you dig in, the other is where a king lives.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) buckit
b) holliday
c) seashel
d) sandcastle
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d) sandcastle. Bucket ends in et, not it; seashell needs the double l of shell; and holiday has one l.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
s_ndc_stle
a) a, u
b) u, a
c) a, a
d) e, a
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c) a, a. Both parts use the short a you hear in cat.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Sandcastle is two words joined together. Which of these is also made that way?
a) beaches
b) seashore
c) castles
d) sandy
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b) seashore
2. Which tools help most when making a sandcastle?
a) a needle and thread
b) a pen and ruler
c) a hammer and nails
d) a bucket and spade
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d) a bucket and spade
