Digraphs: SH & CH- Reading

Hi teachers out there! 

How do you develop reading skills with digraphs? How do you introduce them? 

Here you have a few ideas that you may find useful to help your students become more confident when coming across these two digraphs in their reading activities. 

First - Remind them about the term digraph (2 graphemes together which represent a unique phoneme). Help them differentiate between digraphs and individual letter sound with the following video; it encourages learners to think of digraphs as teamwork  SH vs CH Teams - Alphablocks (until 2:15'). 

Second - Make the learning meaningful to them, linked to the meaning of words. 

Third - Read the following stories  Stories with words which contain SH and CH digraphs. and ask your learners to identify and highlight the words with the digraphs: sh and ch. 

Fourth - Search for the invisible sh and ch words. Write the words  with the sh and ch digraphs that appear in the story in a blank piece of paper with the invisible ink pen and add a few extra ones without those digraphs. Challenge your learners to spot the SH and CH words with the lantern of the lid of your cool pen. 

Note: Where can you get the pen? Invisible ink pen Get your invisible ink pen