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Subject: Concept of 'ck'

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Shama Nadeem mannoo

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Date Posted: 22:23:39 11/18/08 Tue

To teach the concept of 'ck'. I made up a story which I narrated to the student, I teach. It did wonders in clarifying as to why we always write 'ck' to produce the sound of /k/ after a short vowel.

I told the child that there once was a Mrs. Vowel, whose neighbors called her Mrs. Short Vowel because of her short temper. Two friends �c� and �k� worked in her kitchen. One-day �k� broke a tumbler. As usual Mrs. Short Vowel was very angry. �k� was so scared that she was about to faint, seeing this �c� came in between and took all the blame on herself. Ever since then �k� always takes along �c� whenever faced with a short vowel. Therefore in words like clock the �c� always remains in between the short vowel and �k�.

The story got embedded in the child's mind. and now he never makes a mistake with words like suck, duck, stick, stock, pick and so.

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