Spell Bee Word: Strawberry

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What does strawberry mean?

Word: Strawberry

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Strawberry means a small, sweet, red fruit shaped a little like a heart.

How do you spell strawberry?

Syllables: straw - ber - ry

Tricky part: The second part has a double r, as in cherry.

Watch out for: strawbery, strawbary

Memory tip: Cherry and strawberry are both red berries, and both carry a double r.

Strawberry in a sentence

Example 1: Mahabaleshwar is famous for its strawberries.

Example 2: I had strawberry ice cream at the party.

Example 3: Wash the strawberries before you eat them.

Next steps

Fun Fact

The tiny yellow dots on the outside of a strawberry are its seeds, and one berry can carry about 200 of them.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) strawberrie
b) strawberry
c) strawberrey
d) strawberri

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b) strawberry. The word ends in a plain y, as in cherry.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

strawwberry

a) w
b) r
c) b
d) y

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a) w. Only one w is needed, just as in draw and saw.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

ywrbsratre

a) srtawberry
b) strawberry
c) stawrberry
d) starwberry

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b) strawberry. Look at the first five letters: only one choice starts with the dry grass farmers lay under the plants.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Mira dipped each strawberry in melted choclate.

a) dipped
b) strawberry
c) melted
d) choclate

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d) choclate. Chocolate has an o between the c and the l: choc-o-late.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is often made from strawberries?

a) cheese
b) rice
c) soup
d) jam

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d) jam

2. Strawberry ice cream is usually what colour?

a) green
b) pink
c) white
d) brown

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b) pink

Associated Words

Words that end in -berry: blueberry, raspberry, berry, blackberry

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