Consonant Digraph 'ck' & Blending/Segmenting Digraph Words
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Click, Clack, Quack! Let's Learn the 'ck' Team!
Hello, Awesome Readers! Have you ever noticed how some letters are best friends? They love to stick together and make a special sound. Today, we're going to meet a super-strong letter team: 'c' and 'k'!
Think of 'c' and 'k' as superheroes. On their own, they can both make the /k/ sound. But when they team up at the end of a word, right after a short vowel (like a, e, i, o, u), they become the amazing 'ck' team! They hold hands and make ONE big, strong /k/ sound together. They do this so we know for sure what sound to make!
Key Takeaway: The Super 'ck' Rule!
- The letters 'c' and 'k' team up to make one sound: /k/.
- You almost always find this team at the end of a word.
- They love to stand right after a short vowel sound, like in duck or rock.
Let's Be Sound Detectives!
Let's try blending! That's when we push sounds together to make a word. Let's tap it out:
p - i - ck → pick!
s - o - ck → sock!
Now let's try segmenting! That's when we stretch a word out to hear all its sounds to spell it. How would we spell "back"? Let's stretch it: /b/ /a/ /k/. We hear the /k/ sound at the end, right after the short 'a' sound. That's a job for our super team! So we spell it: b-a-c-k. You did it!
Reading Adventure Time!
This little story has lots of letter teams, called digraphs. Can you find them? Read the story, and then look below to see all the digraphs we found!
A big duck had a black rock. He had to pack his sack. A fish did a swish in the bath. The duck had such a shock! He had to check on the fish.
Wow! Look at all those letter teams! The 'ck' team helps us read words like duck and pack. The 'sh' team makes the "quiet" sound in fish. The 'th' team helps us say bath, and the 'ch' team makes the sound in such. These teams are so important because they turn two letters into one new sound, helping us read perfectly!
You are a digraph superstar! Keep looking for letter teams everywhere you read.
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Skills in this topic
- Identify the 'ck' sound in spoken words.
- Associate the 'ck' sound with the digraph 'ck'.
- Blend sounds to read words containing consonant digraphs (e.g., 'fish,' 'chip,' 'bath,' 'whiz,' 'duck').
- Segment sounds to spell words containing consonant digraphs.
- Read a short passage containing CVC words and words with digraphs, then identify and underline all the digraphs, explaining their role in forming words.
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