How many ways can you spell the “sh” sound?

Watch the video and find out. (Or read below)

Transcript

In this video we’re looking at the letter patterns that have the “sh” sound in them. Letter patterns are also called spelling patterns and letter strings. Good spellers know common letter patterns and can write them automatically. Good spellers also know the different sounds that go with these letter patterns.

How many ways can you spell the sound “sh”? Think of the endings of words as well.
For example – sheep, nation, obsession,

What others do you know?

We have the common sh pattern – pattern sheep, wish, fashion

–sion mission permission session
–sure pressure, treasure, measure
–cial social, special, official
-ient / -cient, -tient ancient, sufficient, patient
–sue tissue, issue
–tial essential, substantial, partial
–tion lotion, portion, condition
ocean
–sia / -sian Asia/Asian, Russia/Russian, Persia/Persian
–cious gracious, delicious, ambitious

some ge endings– beige, massage

su– sugar, sure, insurance

French influence – chef, machine, champagne, brochure, moustached