Real Spellers

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 .
• 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.