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Color the Chunk: Digraph Pages

By thisreadingmama 7 Comments

Today, I’m sharing our Color the Chunk Digraph Pages. They’re great for helping learners find and use word chunks to read words.

Find all our free Color the Chunk Phonics Pages or grab our Color the Chunk Phonics Bundle!

Color the Chunk Digraph Pages - helping learners find and read by chunks - This Reading Mama

What is a Digraph?

A digraph is two letters that make ONE sound. Digraphs can be formed with vowels (such as ea or ai) or with consonants, like the ones in this pack. Don’t worry…vowel digraphs are coming in this series! 🙂

 

Color the Chunk: Digraph Pages

Like I’ve said before, one of the most powerful decoding strategies we can teach beginning readers AND older readers is using chunks they know to help them read words. Longer words are mostly made from smaller chunks. And once learners can find those smaller chunks in words, reading longer words usually isn’t as daunting.

Last week, I shared our color the chunk bossy r pages. And today, I’m sharing our color the chunk for digraphs ch, sh, th, & wh. You’ll also find two mixed review pages in the pack!

For the most part, the words on each page are short vowel words. Digraphs can be found at the beginning or end of the words, with the exception of wh.

Learners color the featured digraph chunk and then use that to help them read the entire word aloud. The featured digraph is posted at the top with a key word/picture to help learners remember the digraph’s sound.

**Update: It’s been brought to my attention that one of the sh words I used means something inappropriate for some international readers. I’ve included alternative pages for you on the last two pages of the download.

 

Extension Ideas:

If you want a way to extend the activity, learners could even pick 6-8 words from the list and either draw a picture to match or write a sentence that includes the word.

 

 

Looking for more digraph resources? You May Like:

Digraph Cards

Digraph Sorting Pages
Digraph Sorting Pictures

 

 

Grab the Color the Chunk Digraph Pages Below!

 

 

Enjoy!
~Becky

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Filed Under: Phonics and Word Study, Struggling Readers Tagged With: BD, Color the Chunk, FAV

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Comments

  1. darilagblog says

    November 5, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    Hi!! I love your worksheets. Do you have something like this for blends?

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      December 18, 2017 at 8:45 pm

      Yes. I do now –> https://thisreadingmama.com/color-blends-phonics-pages/

      Reply
  2. Fadel Aldhaif says

    February 2, 2018 at 8:34 am

    Hi!! I love your worksheets. Do you have something like this as book and Audio?

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 4, 2018 at 7:37 am

      No, I do not.

      Reply
  3. Sarah Simmons says

    January 2, 2019 at 11:29 pm

    Are these gone? It says Grab the Color the Chunk Digraph Pages Below! But there’s nothing below. Maybe it’s my browser. Just wondering. Thanks.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 4, 2019 at 8:52 pm

      I can see the teal download box. Try using a different browser instead.

      Reply
  4. Bora says

    September 6, 2020 at 1:07 pm

    Really Really thanks~
    You must be an Angel~~!

    Reply

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