Spelling patterns this week: ck, nk, ng and other digraph words
Relevant spelling guidelines:
- When adding ‘ing’ to words that end in a consonant, we have to double up the consonant.
- We use ‘ck’ for the ‘k’ sound if the following letter is e, i or y. ‘ck’ ALWAYS comes after a short vowel.
- In ‘-ank’, ‘-ink’, ‘-onk’ and ‘-unk’ words, the vowel is short.
- A ‘digraph’ is two letters that represent one sound such as ‘thumb’