Read with an adult. Take your time. You can say, point, draw or write your answer.
1 Let's look together
Say catch with your adult. The last sound is written with three letters: t, c and h. They work together.
Now read fetch. It ends with tch too. In these short words, tch follows a single vowel letter.
ca + tch → catchfe + tch → fetchpa + tch → patch
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I say patch. I point to tch and say its sound once, not three times. A patch can cover a hole in cloth.
3 Your turn
Which three letters finish match?
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Let's check together
tch. They work together for the final sound here.
4 Try it away from the page
Build catch with letter cards. Keep tch together while you read. Then find the same ending in fetch and patch.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Tch represents /tʃ/ here, usually after a single short-vowel letter. Which, rich, much and such are exceptions with ch. Match means an equal pair in this practice, not a fire-lighting object. Follow the child's taught phonics sequence. An adult models unfamiliar sounds, reads instructions and explains meanings. Revisit a few words at a time; do not guess from pictures.
Read instructions aloud. Word-reading practice must match the child's taught sounds. The phonics pages support, but do not replace, the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme. Shared stories are adult-read unless the child can decode them. Re-read and practise daily.
Connect taught sounds and spellings for decoding.
Blend and reread words matched to taught sound-spelling knowledge.
Practise Year 1 spelling patterns, prefixes and endings.