If you are teaching digraphs to kindergarten and first graders, you will love this free printable digraphs game! This digraph activity helps students become better readers as they master consonant digraphs such as ch, sh, th, ph, and wh. Simply print the lend and digraph games and you are ready to play and learn with a phonics activity!
Digraphs Game
Consonant digraph game
Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _______ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save freebie. Now print off the pages. These pages all come in color for some fun digraph gaming.
What are digraphs
Why Teach Digraphs
When to Teach Digraphs
Blend and digraph games
This is where the fun begins. There are two beginning and two ending digraph games, making a total of 4 printable digraph games. To play, print out and laminate the boards and give each child their own copy of the record sheets.
Digraphs activity
To play the games:
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- Place counters on the start box.
- Players take turns rolling a die and moving forward.
- On reaching a square, they must say the word and write it in the correct column on the record sheet.
- The first player to reach the finish wins.
Teaching digraphs
If you are looking for more fun ways to teach kids to read and spell digraphs, check out these free phonics printables:
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Digraphs
As children progress in phonics they work on blends and digraphs chart. Digraphs are two consonants that make one sound such as /TH/ says thumb (phoneme). CH in the word “chair” and PH in the word “phone” are both examples of digraphs. Consonant blends have two constonants that each still make their own sound such as . If you are looking for more blends for kids games, worksheets, and activities? Check out these resoures or see all our digraph activities or consonant activities.
- Worksheets – Beginning Consonant Digraphs Worksheets with dot markers(covers sh, ch, th, ph, wh, kn, and qu) and Ending Digraph Worksheets with dot markers (ck, ng, ch, sh, th, tch, and dge)
- Individual packs that go more in depth: TH worksheets, SH worksheets, CH worksheets, Consonant clusters worksheets, and CH and TCH Worksheets, free ch and sh worksheets, more ch and sh worksheet pages, and ch sh th worksheet pages
- Games – Ew Words 5-in-a-row Game, Ending Digraph Games free printable, CH / SH / TH Digraph Games, Digraph Bingo Game, Digraphs Games – several boards covering ch, sh, th, ph, and wh, Puzzles Dipthong Games, Flower Digraph Activity (pr, bl, ch, sk, gr, pl, sh, wh, ph, th), Ice Cream Digraph activity, Spring Digraph activities for kids, and Build-a-Digraph Activities free Puzzle
Trigraphs
Trigraphs make a single sound that is represented by three letters. For example: In the word ‘match’, the three letters ‘tch’ at the end make only one sound.
- Trigraph – cut-and-paste trigraph worksheet (learn spl, str, spr words), do-a-dot trigraphs worksheets (squ, shr, scr words), hands-on thr words trigraph playdough mats, free trigraph word list pdf (color and read spl, scr, shr), EAR sound words domino game, ge and dge words boardgame, and free trigraph worksheets (color and read spr, squ, str trigraphs)
Dipthongs
A diphthong is a sound formed by combining two vowels in a single syllable. The sound begins as one vowel sound and moves towards another. The two most common diphthongs in the English language are the letter combination “oy”/“oi”, as in “boy” or “coin”, and “ow”/ “ou”, as in “cloud” or “cow
Language Arts Worksheets & Activities
We have tons of hands-on activities and free language arts worksheets to help kids learn:
- First the basics: Free Alphabet Printables, fun Beginning Sound Activities, How to teach phonics step-by-step, How to Teach Reading, tons of grammar for kids resources, word family activities
- Children’s book lists (by grade and topic) plus fun book report ideas, free book report template, sandwich book report
- Fun rhyming activities like rhyming puzzles and free rhyming words worksheets pdf
- Sight Words printable list, Free sight word worksheets, printable candyland sight word game, color by sight word
- TONS of CVC Activities including cvc words with pictures pdf, free cvce worksheets, cut and paste short u worksheets
- Lots of Phonics Activities pdf, free Blends Activities, fun Digraph and Trigraph activities,
- FREE Spelling Test Template plus spelling dictionary for kids and spelling activities to practice like connect 4 spelling practice worksheets pdf free, Dog End of Sentence Punctuation Activity
- Sentence activities like printable unscramble sentences worksheet and Smores complete sentence games
- Creative Writing Prompts for Kids – printable first grade writng paper, free farm writing prompts
- Parts of Speech Activities including parts of speech BINGO, Solve It parts of speech game
- Prepositions Worksheets and Free animal reading comprehension worksheets
- Learn to use a dictionary with free Detective Dictionary Skills Worksheet
- Compound Word Activities like compound word puzzles and compound words game
- Contraction Activities like free contraction worksheets and contraction BINGO
- Free Closed Syllable Words List, Synonyms and antonyms worksheets, hands-on punctuation activities, free printable adding suffixes to word endings game, words ending in y, ey, and ie clip cards activity
- TONS of Free printable books for beginning readers pdf and short vowel worksheets
Digraph games
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