Consonant Digraphs
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11 sets of consonant digraphs word cards: ch, ck, kn, ph, sh, tch, voiced and voiceless th, wh, wr, and double letters.
Description
Help your students achieve the next level of reading skills by teaching them these common letter pairs after they’ve mastered single letter sounds!
What is a digraph? A digraph is a combination of two letters that spell one sound. Two-letter blends, by contrast, have two distinct letter sounds.
These sets are all consonants digraphs (except TCH, which is technically a trigraph).
If you are teaching digraphs with vowels (ay, oa…), take a look at the Long Vowels Sounds word sets, too.
Word list for the CH word set.
27 cards.
This set contains words with initial or final /ch/ sound and short vowels.
Words
CH, chaff, champ, chat, check, chess, chest, chick, children, chimp, chin, chip, chop, chug, chunk, bench, bunch, drench, finch, hunch, lunch, much, munch, pinch, punch, rich, such
Word list for the CK word set.
25 cards.
This set has 4- and 5-letter words with the final /k/ sound, spelled -ck, and short vowels. This set includes some blends.
Words
-CK, back, Jack, deck, neck, lock, dock, Rick, tick, muck, yuck, black, snack, check, wreck, thick, trick, block, clock, cluck, truck
Word list for the KN word set.
9 cards.
This small set has 4- and 5-letter words with the initial /n/ sound spelled "kn", along with short and long vowel sounds.
Words
KN, knee, knew, knit, know, knot, kneel, knife, knock, knight
Word list for the PH word set.
15 cards.
These words contain the initial, middle, or final /f/ sound spelled "ph" with long and short vowels.
Words
PH, aphid, gopher, graph, hyphen, Joseph, nephew, orphan, phase, phew, phone, phrase, photo, Ralph, sphere
Word list for the SH word set.
26 cards.
These words have the /sh/ sound in the beginning or final position, with short vowels.
Words
SH, shack, shed, shell, shelf, ship, shift, shock, shop, shot, shred, shunt, shut, bash, brush, cash, dash, dish, fish, flash, flush, lash, mash, rash, splash, smash, smush, wash, wish
Word list for the TCH word set.
17 cards.
Words in this set have the final /ch/ sound spelled with the trigraph: TCH. One exception: TCH does make an appearance in the middle of ketchup!
Words
TCH, batch, catch, hatch, patch, match, watch, itch, pitch, witch, switch, etch, ketchup, botch, blotch, notch, Dutch, clutch, crutch
Word list for the voiced TH card set.
12 cards. Words containing the voiced "th" sound.
NOTE: Voiced and voiceless TH sets have different colour borders, for easy sorting.
Words
TH, that, than, them, then, this, bother, gather, slither
Word list for voiceless TH word set.
14 cards.
Words containing initial and final voiceless /th/ sound.
NOTE: Voiced and voiceless TH sets have different colour borders, for easy sorting.
Words
TH, thank, thick, thin, thing, think, thud, three, bath, cloth, moth, math, path, tenth
Word list for the WH word set.
15 cards.
Initial /w/ sound with 1- and 2-syllable words. Short and long vowel sounds are included.
Words
WH, wham, wheat, when, wheel, where, which, whimper, whip, whisper, whisk, whisker, while, white, why
Word list for the WR word set.
17 cards.
Initial /r/ sound (with the exception of rewrite), spelled "wr". Includes 1- and 2-syllable words with long and short vowels.
Words
WR, wrap, wren, wrath, wreck, write, wrote, unwrap, wrench, wrist, wrong, rewrite, wrapper, wreathe, wrestle, wrinkle, written
Word list for double letters word sets.
49 cards. Includes words and double consonant cards.
4-, 5-, and 6-letter words with short vowels sounds and some blends.
Double letters: -ff, -ll, -ss, -zz
Words
FF, cliff, cuff, fluff, off, puffy, sniff, taffy, muffin, LL, bell, sell, tell, chill, pill, spill, still, doll, dull, jelly, scull, silly, Sally, SS, boss, class, dress, fuss, chess, floss, glass, glossy, messy, ZZ, buzz, fizz, fizzy, frizz, frizzy, fuzz, fuzzy, jazz, pizza, puzzle
Jim –
These are great~ I’ve been using your images for many years. Just back refreshing a few lost files and am finding a lot of new material! I wonder if you could eventually couple these words with image sets that go along with them for context.
Thanks!
Karen –
Hi Jim,
It’s so nice to hear you’ve found the flashcards useful over the years!
Yes, it would be nice to have matching image cards to go with the phonics words… that may be a project I try to tackle over winter, but I can’t promise a timeline on that one. Sorry!
Varya –
Thank you so much for all your work!! Am so glad I found your blog and your materials, and really looking forward to using your card sets during my lessons!!
Karen –
You’re welcome. I hope your lessons go well. 🙂
Sariah –
I’m so Thankful to have found these! They are exactly what I’ve been looking for to work with my kids with
Karen –
I hope you’re kids like them, too 🙂
Richie –
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Natalia Shaiderova –
Wow! Veru useful! Thank you!
Elisabeth Eddy –
These were the perfect cards to use for my small group instruction after school, exactly what I was looking for!
Karen –
Glad to hear that! 🙂
Kerry Mullins –
super Great cards!!! Love them
Angie –
my students loooved these cards..i combined them with a simple board game template and printed them in colour! thank you!!!!
Karen –
I’m so glad to hear that!
Haniah Joby –
Superb.. God bless you
Kate –
These are brilliant. They will save me so much time. Making these by hand is so time-consuming, and I only have one student. Absolutely perfect. Thank you so much for making them so freely available.
Anna –
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Divina Hamazaki –
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Jose –
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vera –
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Alla Alla –
Super!
Amy Mendez –
Thanks for sharing this resource, it is very helpful.
cleeann –
Perfect
Prapaporn –
Useful
Michelle Grimes –
Thank you so much for sharing these useful cards.
Sharonne –
Amazing! I’m so glad to have found these free resources to support my ELL students and others as well. Thank you so much.
sil –
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Virginia –
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Martine –
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