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Skill Explainer

3.1 Prepare for Consonant Digraphs Instruction

Consonant Digraphs Skill Explainer

Lisa Glickman

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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Antonio Fierro: Let's use the builder word strategy with digraphs. The word is ship ... ship. I saw a ship out in the ocean ... ship. Right? Now you say it. Right ... ship. Let's see how many phonemes are in the word ship ... /sh/, /ĭ/, /p/. Oh, good, three. So we'll have three lines ... /sh/, /ĭ/, /p/. What's a grapheme that represents that /sh/? Mmmm, 'sh'. Oh, and don't forget, this is my digraph. I have two letters coming together to make one sound, right? My vowel ... /sh/, /ĭ/ ... What graphene? 'i'. And the final phoneme is /p/. What about the grapheme? 'p'. Let's write it out ... ship. Ship.

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Consonant Digraphs: List of Words, Phrases, and Sentences for Lesson Planning

Our word lists can help you plan for teaching digraphs. Use them in your reading, spelling, and fluency lessons and activities.

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Digraphs Flash Cards With Pictures (2x4)

Print these 2x4 letter flash cards with pictures to use with small groups.

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Digraphs Flash Cards With Pictures (5x7)

Print these 2x4 letter flash cards with pictures to use during your warm-up.

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Digraphs Flash Cards Without Pictures (2x4)

Print these 2x4 letter flash cards without pictures to help students practice the sounds for 'ch', 'sh', 'th', 'wh', 'ph', and '-ck'.

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Digraphs Flash Cards Without Pictures (5x7)

Print these 5x7 letter flash cards without pictures to help students practice the sounds for 'ch', 'sh', 'th', 'wh', 'ph', and '-ck'.

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