Most consonants are easy to spell: Just listen to the sounds you hear and write one letter for each sound:
| rat | peg | drip | blob | drum |
Sometimes you need two consonants after a short vowel
sound.
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The short vowel sounds are those you hear at the start of these words: |
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| alligator | elephant | insect | octopus | umbrella |
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Some end consonants need to
be doubled after a short vowel. The end consonants which
need to double are :
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| f > ff | s > ss | l > ll | and c becomes ck |
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| cliff | pass | shell | clock |
| staff sniff tiff puff bluff cuff stuff scoff off ('get off') |
mass class press stress fuss hiss miss boss cross |
bell smell still doll bull pull The 'all' words: call fall small wall |
track snack neck speck click thick lock shock duck struck |
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