How Do You Teach Tricky Words? How do we teach ‘tricky words’? It is now recommended that we teach ‘tricky words’ by encouraging the pupil to sound out the parts of the word they know and supplying them the parts they do not. In the case of the word ‘say’ the teacher would ask the
Are Common Exception Words Tricky Words? Tricky words are not decodable using phonics alone as they have spellings that do not show grapheme-phoneme correspondence. They are called common exception words. What are common exception words? Common exception words are everyday words that break the phonic rules taught at school. Whilst these words will always be