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Spell Bee Word: Telescope


Basic Details

Word: Telescope

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A long tube with lenses or mirrors that makes faraway things, like the moon and stars, look bigger and closer.

How to Spell Telescope

Syllables: tel - e - scope

Tricky part: The middle vowel is e, not i. Children often write teliscope, and some forget the final e of scope.

Watch out for: teliscope, telescop, tellescope

Memory tip: Tele means far, as in television and telephone. Add scope and you have a tool to see far.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Through the telescope we saw craters on the moon.

Example 2: The science club bought a new telescope for star-gazing nights.

Example 3: Sailors once used a small telescope to spot ships far away.

Fun Fact

In 1610 Galileo described four moons of Jupiter that he had seen through a telescope he built himself.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the prefix that completes the word:

scope

a) tela
b) teli
c) tele
d) tile

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c) tele. Tele, meaning far, is spelt t-e-l-e, as in television.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

olecspeet

a) teelscope
b) telecsope
c) telescope
d) telescoep

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c) telescope. Find tele first; scope uses the letters left over.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) rockit
b) planit
c) telescope
d) microscop

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c) telescope. Planet, microscope and rocket have each been spelt wrongly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these would you look at through a telescope?

a) your own nose
b) a page of a book
c) an ant on your hand
d) the stars

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d) the stars

2. A telescope makes faraway things look ____.

a) smaller
b) darker
c) bigger and closer
d) upside down only

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c) bigger and closer

Associated Words

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Next steps

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