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Consonant Blends and Digraphs

Read words with consonant clusters (bl, cr, str) and digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh)

12 minIncludes video

Learning Objective

4Rw2: Decode words with consonant blends and digraphs

Consonant Blends (you hear both sounds)

  • bl: black, blue, blow
  • cr: cry, cross, crowd
  • str: street, strong, string
  • gr: green, grow, great
  • sp: speak, sport, spend

Digraphs (two letters, one sound)

  • sh: shop, she, fish
  • ch: child, church, teach
  • th: the, think, three
  • wh: what, where, white

Practice Sentences

  1. The children went to church on Sunday.
  2. The strong man carried three bags.
  3. She bought fish at the market in Lagos.

Aligned to Cambridge Primary 4Rw2