Year 2Trigraphs
tch words
The letters t, c and h work together to make the /ch/ sound.
tch/ch/ as in itchy
Words with tch
Tap a word to see its sounds and hear it.
tch in the middle
tch at the end
Read tch in a sentence.
Every sentence is checked against the sound.
- 1Watch me catch it.
- 2The witch has a hutch.
- 3Fetch it to the kitchen.
- 4The eggs hatch in the hutch.
How to teach tch
- Introduce the trigraph. Explain that a trigraph is three letters that work together to make one sound.
- Model saying the target phoneme three times.
- Students repeat.
- Check articulation and correct mouth placement.
- Identify the phoneme in the example words.
- Explain the spelling generalisation: We usually use tch to spell the /ch/ phoneme at the end of a one-syllable word after a short vowel (e.g. catch, match, pitch, fetch). After a long vowel, another consonant or two vowels, we usually use ch instead (e.g. beach, coach, lunch, branch).
Other ways to spell /ch/
Decodable stories with tch.
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Make a whole tch lesson.
Slides, words and sentences, matched to the sounds your class has learned.