A digraph is a group of two letters that represent one speech sound. Examples include: sh, ch, th, ph. This week, students brainstormed a list of many “TH” digraph words as a class. Although many of our words started with “th” (Thursday, thermos, thunder, thirsty, three, thirty), we thought of a few words that end in the digraph (path, bath). One of our classmates even has a name with the digraph TH in the middle! Can you think of who? The TH digraph is sometimes voiced, as in: the, this, than, that. We call this the vibrating voiced TH because it tickles our tongues when we hold the sound. Listen to the digraph TH here and here (voiced).
Students will continue practicing this digraph next week by completing a picture sort before we learn our next digraph: SH. We’ve also been continuing to work on mastery of sight words including th: that, than, with, then, them, this.
