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Spell Bee Word: Shape


What does shape mean?

Word: Shape

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Shape means the outline of something, for example a circle, a square or a star.

How do you spell shape?

Syllables: shape

Tricky part: The e at the end makes no sound, so children often leave it off and write shap.

Watch out for: shap, shapee

Memory tip: The final e in shape makes no sound of its own, but it changes how the a in the middle is said.

Shape in a sentence

Example 1: A rangoli can have flowers, stars and many other shapes.

Example 2: This cloud looks like the shape of an elephant.

Example 3: Can you cut the paper into a heart shape?

Fun Fact

A shape with eight straight sides is called an octagon. Many stop signs on roads have this shape.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

shappe

a) e
b) a
c) h
d) p

Show answer

d) p. Shape keeps only one p before its silent e.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) shape
b) shaap
c) shpae
d) shaip

Show answer

a) shape. The long a is made by the a and the e at the end working together.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

shape

a) size
b) sound
c) colour
d) form

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d) form. The form of something is its shape, so the two words mean the same here.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Draw a shape with fower sides on your slate.

a) fower
b) shape
c) sides
d) slate

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a) fower. The number after three is spelt four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word names a shape?

a) a smell
b) an oval
c) a colour
d) a sound

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b) an oval

2. Kavya folds a square piece of paper corner to corner. What new shape does she see?

a) a circle
b) a star
c) a heart
d) a triangle

Show answer

d) a triangle

Associated Words

Words that start with sha: shallow, shark, shabby, shatter

More words from this list

theatre, wren, breakfast, crocodile, forehead, hippopotamus, mail, pineapple

Next steps

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