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Grade 2 Reading & Writing · World 1: Sound Sprouts · Level 1
Blends and Digraphs
Read and spell words with bl, st, tr…, and sh, ch, th, wh, ck, tch.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 1
- Some letters are a team. Together they make one brand-new sound. S and h make sh, like in ship. Shh!
- Here are more teams: ch like chick, th like bath, and wh like whale. Two letters, one sound!
- At the end of a short word, the k sound is usually spelled c k, like duck. And the ch sound is often t c h, like witch.
- A blend is different. You can hear both sounds, blended together fast. F and r make fr, like frog: f-r-og.
- Your turn! Spell crab. Listen for both sounds in the blend: c, r.
- Teams make one sound. Blends keep both sounds. Let's practice!
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 2.F.P.1.a — Identify and produce all phoneme-grapheme correspondences for all consonants, including consonant blends and digraphs.
- 2.F.P.3.a — Encode regularly spelled two-syllable words with a variety of spelling patterns (VVCC, VVCe, VCCC, VVCCC) by applying knowledge of basic phonics skills, including high-frequency words.