Blends Diagraphs trigraphs and

quadgraphs
Letter sounds
L blends
R blends
• Sc • Str
• Sk • Sch
• Sm • Spr
• Sn • Sph
• St • Shr
• Sp • Squ
• Spl
 S blends & trigraphs
Blends Trigraphs
• Sc • Str
• Sk • Sch
• Sm • Spr
• Sn • Sph
• St • Shr
• Sp • Squ
• Spl
 Three letter r blends
• Chr-
• Thr
• Two
• Sweet
• Dwell
 T blends
• Tw
• Tch
H brothers
 Vowel pairs
• -ai (long a) • -ay
Rain pain Say clay
• -ea (long e) • -ee
Read bead Seed feed
• -y( long i) • -igh
By my High sight
• -oa(o) • -ow
Boat float Grow, show
• -ou • -ow
Ground sound Owl growl
• -oi • -oy
Boil toil Boy toy
 Vowel pairs
-or -air are
Corn horn Pair fair chair
-aw Fare bare glare
Jaw saw paw
-er, ir, ur-ur sound
Her per
Bird girl third
-eer, ear
Deer, eer
Ear, dear
 Bossy r
• Ar – are -card
• Or –or corn
• Ir bird
• Or er born
• Ur burn
 Trigraphs
• -dge follows a short vowel
Bridge, fridge, sledge
• -tch follows a short vowel
Watch, batch, hatch, match
• -igh always long i sound
High, fight, light
• -ear two sounds
• Dear, fear hear
• Bear, beard, year
 Trigraphs
• -ure
Pure sure manure cure
- eau sounds like u
beauty, beautiful beau
- -air
Fair, chair
 Quadgraphs
• -eigh sound a
Eight, height, weight, weigh
-augh- aaf sound
Laugh
-augh –ow sound
Draught, taught, caught
 Ough – 4 sounds
-off- cough
-uff – tough rough enough
-o though, although
-ow thought, bought, fought, plough
 CVC practice

Bad Pat bat

Bed Pet Bet

Bid Pit Bit
Bod Pot Bot
Bud put but
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