Virginia SOL K.FFR.3.E

ELAKindergartenFoundations for Reading

The Standard

Identify the letter-sound correspondences for consonant digraphs (e.g., ch, sh, th, wh)

Virginia Standards of Learning for English · Phonics and Word Analysis: The student will apply phonetic principles to read and spell words

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students recognize that ch, sh, th, and wh are letter teams that usually represent one sound. They say each sound and connect it to the beginning or ending sound in familiar words.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students produce the correct sound when shown each letter team. They can match ch, sh, th, and wh to familiar words such as chip, ship, thumb, and wheel.
Common Misconceptions: Students may say both letter sounds separately instead of one combined sound. They may confuse ch with sh, reverse the letters, or treat any two consonants together as a digraph.
How to Assess It: Show the cards ch, sh, th, and wh. Ask each student to say the sound and name or point to a picture that begins with it.

Lesson moves

Give students magnetic letters to build chat, ship, thin, and whip, then have them slide each digraph together while saying its sound.
Show a picture of a chair, shoe, thumb, or wheel and ask, "Which letter team spells the first sound, and how do you know?"
Play digraph bingo with ch, sh, th, and wh cards while calling picture words such as cheese, shell, thorn, and whale.
Have students search classroom labels and familiar book covers for ch, sh, th, and wh, then copy one word for each digraph.

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