Reading · Ages 5–6 · 12 minutes

Kindergarten Phonics Digraph Sound Hunt

Children hunt for two-letter teams that work together, then use the sound rather than two separate letter names to read each word.

Student name

BrightPath

Name:
Date:

Today I am practising: recognizing sh, ch, th, and wh as sound teams

Box the sound team in ship. Say the first sound.

Circle the letters that make one sound in chop.

Read thin. Write th at the start of: __in.

Read what. Underline wh, then ask the question aloud.

Sort shell, chat, and them under sh, ch, and th.

Draw one item with a sh, ch, th, or wh sound team and label it.

Grown-up note: Ask your learner to explain one answer in their own words.

For the grown-up

How to teach this page

Step 1Say each sound team as one sound before presenting a word.
Step 2Avoid asking the child to pronounce the letters separately inside the team.
Step 3For th, accept the voiced or unvoiced sound that matches the printed word.