Digraph Word Lists

Digraph Word Lists
Language - Reading
Level	Primary
Prerequisites	Word Lists Digraph Boxes
Materials	lists of phonetic words that include digraphs

In this activity the child reads lists of words with digraphs (or phonemes with more than two letters).

Presentation

1. Carry the stack of word lists to a mat or table. Place the them in the upper right corner.
2. Take one of the lists and have the child read each word.
3. Select another list if the child wants to do more. Continue as long as the child shows interest.

Material

Make Your Own

Word lists can be generated using the Phonics and Stuff Word List Builder.
If making your own lists, keep in ind that this is a good place to include words that are hard to depict with objects or pictures. (wish, them, feel, etc.)

• sh:

  shall, sham, shed, shell, shim, shin, ship, shod, shop, shot, shun, shush, shut

  bash, cash, dash, dish, fish, gash, gosh, gush, hash, hush, Josh, lash, lush, mash, mesh, mush, nosh, posh, rash, rush, sash, wish

  shaft, shelf, shift, shunt, shred, shrub, shrug, shrimp, splash

• ch:

  Chad, chaff, chap, chat, chess, chill, chin, chip, chit, chop, chug, chum

  much, rich, such

  champ, chant, chest, chimp, chomp, chump, lunch, inch, belch, bench, bunch, conch, filch, finch, hunch, lunch, mulch, munch, pinch, punch, ranch, winch, zilch, blanch, branch, brunch, clench, crunch, drench, flinch, French, stench, trench, scrunch

Where to Buy

Prices and links checked: 23 January 2022

Digraph Word Lists
Store	Price
Montessori Print Shop Set 1 pdf	$2.50
Montessori Print Shop Set 2 pdf	$2.50

Further Reading

• Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years by Elizabeth G. Hainstock, pages 112, 173-174