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Show LETRS based spelling curriculum 251 Digraphs ote to teachers:Notice that this spelling list containsboth the short and long vowels. N Sometimes vowel teams make the short vowel sound as well as the long vowel sound. Spelling List: ph=/f/ gh=/f/ irregular phone tough hear photo laugh here graph cough above Day 1 Introduction to digraphs ph and gh (2 minutes):Didyou know that the ph /f/ comes from the Greek. You will learn many more ph words in the older grades in math, science and history such as geography, pharaoh, and photosynthesis. However kids in the lower grades also use ph words such as graph, phonics and elephant. The ph /f/ is found at the beginning, middle and end of words. The gh /f/ comes from old English or old German and used to have the German /ch/ sound but now the sound has changed overtime to the /f/ sound in English today. It’s amazing how language has changed so much over hundreds of years. The gh /f/ is only found at the end of words, unless it has an added suffix such as coughed. pelling Dictionary Activity (3 minutes):Look atthe spelling dictionary S together. Use different colors of highlighter markers to recognise if the ph and gh come at the beginning, middle or end of words. Listen for the /f/ sound in the words. Look at the spelling list above and do the same activity. onsonants and Vowels (5 minutes):Students will colorcode the C consonants and vowels for each spelling word. They will need a black and red writing tool. The teacher will guide the students on the whiteboard or smartboard with corresponding colored writing tools. Students will do this on the 3x4 Word Sort table found in the resources. Have students write consonants in black and vowels in red on the table. Write ph at the top of the first column in black. Write gh at the top of the second column in black. Write irregular at the top of the third column in black. Under the first column write the ph words (consonants in black and vowels in red): phone, photo, graph. Under the second column write gh words (consonants in black and vowels in red): tough, laugh, cough. Under the third column write irregular words (consonants in black and vowels in red): hear, here, above. After writing all |
