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Trigraphs: -tch and -dge
Trigraph: 3 letters that stand for one phoneme (e.g. tch, dge) After I finished creating Literacy Lessons Level 2, which covered consonant blends, I noticed that several of my students needed to work on reading and spelling words with the trigraphs -tch and -dge. Most phonics programs do not teach these features until much later…
Literacy Lessons: Level 2 – Consonant Blends & Trigraphs
Once your students have mastered the concepts taught in Literacy Lessons: Level 1, they will be ready to tackle reading and spelling words with consonant blends and trigraphs. Consonant Blends are two or three consecutive consonants within a syllable that each represent a distinct sound. Blends appear frequently in the English language and are crucial…
Literacy Lessons
Over the past few years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and friend of several parents with young children, I’ve been asked the question over and over again – how do you teach a child to read? As a Kindergarten teacher, I taught my students to read by building their phonemic awareness skills: blending, segmenting,…
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