​What are digraphs?

​A digraph is two letters that make one sound. They can be made up of vowels or consonants.

​Consonant Digraphs!

​Consonant digraphs are two consonants that team up to make one sound. What are some consonant digraphs?

​ch as in chat

sh as in ship

th as in thick

wh as in which

ph as in phone

ck as in sock

​Vowel Digraphs!

​This is just like a consonant digraph, except for one thing: these digraphs can have at least one vowel in them, too! There are multiple digraphs for multiple sounds.

​Look at these words! Can you find the vowel digraphs in them?

pain

look

loom

hay

leader

​Split digraphs!

​This is where a digraph, such as ae, ie, oe, ee, ue is 'split' by a consonant, for example:

In the word pie, you have a digraph made up of ie.

in the word pine, the digraph has been split by the letter n to make a new word, 'pine'.

Split digraphs are shown like this: a_e, i_e, o_e, e_e, u_e.

​a

​n

​e

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