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Spell Bee Word: Seashell


What does seashell mean?

Word: Seashell

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Seashell means the hard outer case of a small sea creature, often found lying on the sand.

How do you spell seashell?

Syllables: sea - shell

Tricky part: The word ends with a double l, and children often stop after one.

Watch out for: seashel, seeshel

Memory tip: Count to two as you write the end: the word closes with two l's, like ball.

Seashell in a sentence

Example 1: Meher filled a jar with seashells from the beach at Goa.

Example 2: We used seashells to decorate our sandcastle.

Example 3: This pink seashell has tiny ridges on it.

Fun Fact

Many seashells are made mostly of calcium carbonate, the same material that is found in chalk.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) seaschell
b) seasell
c) seashell
d) seachell

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c) seashell. The sound in the middle is sh, as in ship.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lesheals

a) sehasell
b) seashell
c) saeshell
d) sesahell

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b) seashell. Only one of these can be read aloud as the word you hear at the beach.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

s_ash_ll

a) a, e
b) e, a
c) i, e
d) e, e

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d) e, e. Both gaps take an e; the first one sits just before the a.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) lobstar
b) oister
c) seashell
d) pebbel

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c) seashell. Pebble ends in ble, oyster has a y, and lobster ends in ster.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ria holds a big seashell to her ear. What does she say she hears?

a) a bird singing
b) a bell ringing
c) waves rolling in
d) a clock ticking

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c) waves rolling in

2. A snail lives in a hard shell. Which animal also has a hard shell to protect its soft body?

a) a tortoise
b) a jellyfish
c) a frog
d) a worm

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a) a tortoise

Associated Words

Words that end in -ell: doorbell, dwell, foretell

More words from this list

toothpaste, annoy, campfire, cricket, explode, haul, lioness, patient

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