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Unit 4: Spelling the consonant digraphs, part 1

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Unit 4: Spelling the consonant digraphs, Part 1

Unit StartPage 1: The consonant digraphs wh, th and chPage 2: The /w/ sound: w or wh?Course Test: The /w/ sound: w or wh?Page 4: Rules and rule breakers: wh wordsPage 5: Homophones /w/ sound words: w or whCourse Test: The /th/ sound: thPage 7: The /th/ sound: thPage 8: The /ch/ sound - is it ch or tch?Course Test: The /ch/ sound - is it ch or tch?Page 10: The /ch/ sound - is it ch or tch?Page 11: Homophones for ch and tch wordsUnit End

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Spelling the consonant digraphs, Part 1

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In this unit, we will look at the way sounds may be represented by one or two letters. When two consonants come together in a word to create one sound, these are called consonant digraphs.

Digraph comes from the Greek language and can be split in two:

two writing
di = two graph = written


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