Consonant Digraphs or Consonant Blends?
Consonant Digraphs: When 2 or more consonants are blended together they make one new sound.
When c as in cow and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /ch/ as in the beginning of cheese, chick, and chips or the ending of peach, inch and beach.
When c as in cow and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /ch/ as in the beginning of cheese, chick, and chips or the ending of peach, inch and beach.
When s as in sun and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /sh/ as in the beginning of shoe, sheep, ship or the ending of fish, bush and brush.
When t as in ten and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /th/as in the beginning of think, thunder and three or the ending of bath, mouth and math.
When w as in wagon and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /wh/ as in the beginning of whistle, whale and wheel.
When p as in penguin and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /f/ as in the beginning of pheasant, phone and phonograph or the ending of graph, morph and phonograph.
View the illustrations and pronunciation of the digraphs in the video Part 1 Consonant Digraph or Consonant Blend?
Consonant Blend: When 2 or more consonants are blended together each sound is heard as in blast, blue, block, blaze, blend and bloom.
The letters b and r are blended together with both sounds heard as in bread, branch, brush, brick, bright and broom.
The letters s and p are blended together with both sounds heard as in spider, spray, sports, spinner, spy and spoon.
View the illustrations and pronunciation of the consonants in the video Part 2 - Consonant Digraph or Consonant Blend?
