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Press the button to listen to the sound.

 

This sound (phoneme) can be spelt in different ways.

We are going to look at the two different graphemes that can make this sound:

 

ch

sh

 

 

Look at the different spellings of this word – which spelling is correct?

a moustache

 

moustache

moustashe

 

 

The correct grapheme was 'ch'.

Often words which use 'ch' to make the 'sh' sound are French in origin.

 

In this activity, you will be asked to think carefully about the words that you can hear and decide which grapheme is needed.

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