Consonant Digraphs: A Quick Introduction
Course 2: Phonics for Paraprofessionals
Let's Watch! Reading specialist Katina Johnson from Riverside Elementary School in Toledo, Ohio, reviews digraphs with her students and introduces a new one — 'th'.

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Katina Johnson: All right, friends. So you know we have been working with digraphs, right? And we know that digraphs are ...
Students: Two-letters that make one sound.
Katina Johnson: Yes. We've been working with digraphs ... two letters that make one sound. So we've had 'c', 'h', what was that sound?
Students: /ch/ ...
Katina Johnson: We've had 's', 'h', what was that sound?
Students: /sh/ ...
Katina Johnson: And now we're going to have a new digraph today. Are you ready?
Students: Yes.
Katina Johnson:
Yes. Here is our digraph. It is 't', 'h'. We look at the digraph itself ... that is two letters that make ...
Students: One sound ...
Katina Johnson: And then we look, we look to see how the sound is made. Okay, so we're going to practice that. Are you ready?

Digraphs Flash Cards with Pictures
Select digraph cards from your deck or download this small set to your desktop. For each card, say out loud the letters, the keyword, and then the phoneme you hear in the digraph: 'c', 'h', chair, /ch/; ‘s', 'h', shoe, /sh/; 't', 'h', thumb, /th/; 'w', 'h', whistle, /wh/; 'p', 'h', phone, /f/.
Select digraph cards from your deck or download this small set to your desktop. For each card, say out loud the letters, the keyword, and then the phoneme you hear in the digraph: 'c', 'h', chair, /ch/; ‘s', 'h', shoe, /sh/; 't', 'h', thumb, /th/; 'w', 'h', whistle, /wh/; 'p', 'h', phone, /f/.