Teaching beginning readers about digraphs can be a challenge. A digraph is two letters that make one sound. The fact that each letter doesn't say a sound can be really confusing to students. For example, we know the /s/ sound, as in snake, and the /h/ sound, as in hat, but together the -sh combination, or digraph, makes one new sound, /sh/ as in share. To help kids practice reading consonant digraphs, I put together some printable flip books. These flip books focus on the most common digraphs: … [Read more...]