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Spell Bee Word: Tortoise


What does tortoise mean?

Word: Tortoise

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Tortoise means a slow land animal with a hard, rounded shell that it can pull its head and legs into.

How do you spell tortoise?

Syllables: tor - toise

Tricky part: The end sounds like tus, but it is spelt with o and i side by side.

Watch out for: tortus, tortise, tortoyse

Memory tip: In the old story the hare races past and the tortoise calls out oi. That oi sits in the second half of the word.

Tortoise in a sentence

Example 1: In the story, the slow tortoise won the race against the hare.

Example 2: The tortoise pulled its head into its shell.

Example 3: We fed lettuce to the tortoise at the zoo.

Fun Fact

Some giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands have lived for more than a hundred years.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) tortois
b) tortoise
c) tortoisse
d) tortoize

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b) tortoise. The word closes with a single s and an e.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

soitreto

a) troitose
b) totroise
c) tortoise
d) trotoise

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c) tortoise. Keep the o and i together, as the tip says, and the rest falls into place.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Grandpa's old tartoise sleeps under the mango tree.

a) tartoise
b) sleeps
c) mango
d) old

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a) tartoise. Tartoise begins with tar, but the animal's name begins with tor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a tortoise mostly eat?

a) leaves and fruit
b) small fish
c) mice and frogs
d) only insects

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a) leaves and fruit

2. Which animal is a close cousin of the tortoise but spends most of its life in water?

a) a frog
b) a crab
c) a lizard
d) a turtle

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d) a turtle

Associated Words

Words that end in -ise: wise, exercise, surprise, cruise, raise, advise

More words from this list

address, burst, decide, fur, hound, market, plug, shelter

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