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Skill Explainer

3.2 Explicitly Teach Consonant Digraphs

Consonant Digraphs Skill Explainer

Lisa Glickman

Images and their related digraphs, such as chair and ch, shoe and sh.

This is a chair. I hear /ch/ as the first sound.

When ‘c' and 'h’ are together they say /ch/. ‘Ch’ is called a digraph. What is a digraph again?

When I see this card, I am going to say the letter names, the picture, then the sound the letters make when they come together. ‘C’, ‘h’, chair, /ch/.

Three flash cards to make the word chat
Three flash cards to make the word chap

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