About the Blends & Digraphs worksheets
This free phonics pack has 24 printable A4 pages: ch, sh, th, bl, fr, st and more. You can edit the words on every page, print it or save it as a PDF, and there's a matching PowerPoint lesson to teach it with. It's made for English teachers in Korea and works for kindergarten and elementary classes, hagwons and tutoring.
What's inside
- Sounds Like: ch: Read each word. Say the "ch" sound.
- Sounds Like: sh: Read each word. Say the "sh" sound.
- Sounds Like: th: Read each word. Say the "th" sound.
- Sounds Like: wh: Read each word. Say the "wh" sound.
- Sounds Like: bl: Read each word. Say the "bl" sound.
- Sounds Like: br: Read each word. Say the "br" sound.
- Sounds Like: cr: Read each word. Say the "cr" sound.
- Sounds Like: dr: Read each word. Say the "dr" sound.
- Sounds Like: fl: Read each word. Say the "fl" sound.
- Sounds Like: fr: Read each word. Say the "fr" sound.
- Sounds Like: gr: Read each word. Say the "gr" sound.
- Sounds Like: pl: Read each word. Say the "pl" sound.
- Sounds Like: sn: Read each word. Say the "sn" sound.
- Sounds Like: sp: Read each word. Say the "sp" sound.
- Sounds Like: st: Read each word. Say the "st" sound.
- Sounds Like: tr: Read each word. Say the "tr" sound.
- Which Blend? 1: Say the picture. Circle the two letters it starts with.
- Which Blend? 2
- Which Blend? 3
- Which Blend? 4
- Which Blend? 5
- Which Blend? 6
Words in this pack
cheese, chick, chair, cherry, chips, chess, ship, shell, sheep, shoe, shark, shirt, thumb, thread, think, bath, tooth, three, whale, wheel, white, wheat, wheelchair, whisper, blue, block, blow, black, blueberries, blink
How to use it in class
Introduce the sound with the picture pages and have students say every word out loud before they write. Then move on to the circling, matching and writing pages. Short daily practice works better than one long session, so two or three pages a class is plenty.