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Spell Bee Word: Shark


What does shark mean?

Word: Shark

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Shark means a large fish with sharp teeth and a fin on its back. Most sharks live in the sea.

How do you spell shark?

Syllables: shark

Tricky part: The word ends with a plain k, as in dark and park, with no c before it.

Watch out for: sharck, sharc, sharke

Memory tip: A shark's fin sticks up out of the water, just like the tall k that ends the word shark.

Shark in a sentence

Example 1: A shark has rows of sharp teeth.

Example 2: We saw a whale shark in a film about the sea.

Example 3: The shark's fin stuck out of the water.

Fun Fact

A shark has no bones. Its skeleton is made of cartilage, the same bendy stuff that is in your ears.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) sherk
b) shurk
c) shark
d) shork

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c) shark. The vowel sound in shark is spelt ar, as in car.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

plankton, shrimp, small fish, ____

a) shark
b) coral
c) snail
d) seaweed

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a) shark. This is a food chain: shrimps eat plankton, small fish eat shrimps, and a shark eats the small fish.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

s_ark

a) h
b) m
c) l
d) w

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a) h. Only h gives the sh sound at the start of shark.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

A shark and a dolfin swam past our boat.

a) swam
b) boat
c) dolfin
d) shark

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c) dolfin. Dolphin spells its f sound with ph.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does a shark breathe under water?

a) through its nose
b) with a blowhole
c) with its gills
d) by holding its breath

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c) with its gills

2. What covers a shark's body?

a) rough skin
b) soft feathers
c) thick fur
d) a hard shell

Show answer

a) rough skin

Associated Words

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Next steps

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