Topics Covered in TBox2 Kit 2 Theme B
Preparing for this Theme
- Talking about ‘vowels’
- Vowel letters
- Vowel graphemes
- Vowel phones and phonemes
- The term ‘base element’
- The orthographic morpheme
- The orthographic term ‘final’
- The consonant cluster phoneme / tʃ /
- Talking about ‘sounds’ in spellings is hopelessly imprecise.
- The unreliable ambiguity of the ‘Phonemic Awareness” output
- Learning from the pronunciations of < eat > and < each >
- The orthographic phonology of the phoneme / t ʃ /
The Main Theme
- Selecting < ck > or < k > in final position
- Selecting < tch > or < ch > in final position
- Spellings with final < ch > rather than an expected < tch>
- The ‘clipped’ word < much >
- The ‘fossil’ compounds < such > and < which >
- The power of < rich >
- A flow chart to include the unexpected spellings
- The bound base element < tach >
Addendum
Related Resources
- The phonology of < c >
- There are basic resources for introducing the phonology of < c > in Kit K
Theme D .
- There are basic resources for introducing the phonology of < c > in Kit K
- The phonology of / k /
- The phoneme / k / can be represented by < c >, < k >, < ck > and < ch >. Go to
Kit 3 Theme B for a full account.
- The phoneme / k / can be represented by < c >, < k >, < ck > and < ch >. Go to
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