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  • Consonant Digraphs Skill Explainer

Quick Look: Digraphs

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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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?

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Support Materials

Lesson Plan for Digraph ‘th’

Lesson Plan for Digraph 'th'

Use this lesson plan to teach students the digraph 'th'.

Digraphs Flash Cards with Pictures (5x7)

Print these 5x7 letter flash cards with pictures to use in whole class instruction. 

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