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  • '-tch' Spelling Rule Skill Explainer

Flash Card Demo: The '-tch' Rule

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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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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'-tch' Flash Cards With and Without Picture

Print these letter flash cards with and without pictures to help students practice '-tch'.

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