'-tch' Spelling Rule Skill Explainer

Flash Card Demo: The '-tch' Rule

Name: Flash Card Demo: The '-tch' Rule
Uploaded: 2026-03-10T12:18:12-04:00
Duration: 34 s
Description: Flash Card Demo: The '-tch' Rule

The trigraph 'tch' is special because it is a three-letter spelling that works together to make a single sound: /ch/. And where we hear that /ch/ sound is a clue for when to use 'tch'. Watch as literacy coach Elizabeth Hogan, M.Ed., models how to warm up with the 'tch' flash card and recites the chant that helps the rule stick with students.

Here’s what you can say when warming up with this flash card that has the keyword picture:

'tch' - 't', 'c', 'h', stitch, /ch/.

Learn more with our free skill explainer on teaching the '-tch' spelling rule.

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This is how we warm up the short vowel rule, '-tch' flashcard.

'tch', stitch, /ch/.

The chant is — "Immediately after a short vowel at the end of a one syllable word, we spell /ch/ 't-c-h'. Ba-dum /ch/!"

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