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.](https://files.readinguniverse.org/Graphics/_1024xAUTO_crop_center-center_85_none/54841/digraph-ske-graphics-reading-universe-1.webp)
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](https://files.readinguniverse.org/Graphics/_1024xAUTO_crop_center-center_85_none/81379/digraph-ske-graphics-03-reading-universe.webp)
![Three flash cards to make the word chap](https://files.readinguniverse.org/Graphics/_1024xAUTO_crop_center-center_85_none/81380/digraph-ske-graphics-04-reading-universe.webp)