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Quick Look: Spelling the /k/ Sound with '-ck'

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(Carla Stanford) All right, go again. You ready?

(students) /k/.

(Ms. Stanford) And?

(students) /k/.

(Ms. Stanford) And?

(students) /k/.

(Ms. Stanford) Here's the thing for 'ck' Hooray.

You only get to use 'ck' at the end of a word,

after a short vowel sound. All right?

So repeat after me. Say, kick.

(students) Kick.

(Ms. Stanford) Sack.

(students) Sack.

(Ms. Stanford) Luck.

(students) Luck.

(Ms. Stanford) Good. Those all end with the /k/ sound.

and you know, ... One, ... two, ... three ways to spell the sound. That was excellent.

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