Digraphs Posters and Games

A child who can confidently blend c-a-t stalls the moment two letters start making one sound. Digraphs Posters and Games is built for that stall. Each consonant digraph gets an anchor poster with a keyword image on the wall, and then four different games put the same sound in front of the child again and again — so choosing between sh and ch happens a hundred times a week without a single extra worksheet.

Why this pack helps

Digraphs are the first place phonics stops being one-letter-one-sound, and children need many low-stakes repetitions before the pattern becomes automatic. Posters alone do not deliver that; games do, but only if they are quick to explain and quick to reset. Everything here shares one picture bank and one set of rules, so the second, third and fourth games need no new teaching — children who learned the sort can play the bingo, and the teacher spends the time on listening rather than on instructions.

What’s inside the pack

• Anchor posters for sh, ch, th, wh, ph, ck and ng, each with a keyword picture and a mouth cue.
• Picture sorting mats with a full deck of image cards, for sorting by digraph or by sound position.
• Bingo with six differentiated boards and a set of calling cards, playable with a whole group.
• Clip cards and a roll-and-read board for independent or paired practice at a center.
• Recording sheets so every game leaves written evidence rather than disappearing when the cards go away.

Sounds and patterns covered

• sh – the most reliable digraph, practiced in initial and final position.
• ch – including the -tch spelling children meet soon afterwards.
• th (unvoiced) – as in thin, contrasted directly with its voiced partner.
• th (voiced) – as in this, which children hear constantly and rarely notice.
• wh – the question-word set, useful to teach alongside spoken language work.
• ph – the digraph that sounds like a letter it does not contain, so it needs separate attention.
• ck – taught with the position rule that keeps it at the end of short words.
• ng – the final-position sound that underpins every -ing word children will write.

Who it’s for

Kindergarten through Grade 2 teachers working through a systematic phonics sequence, reading interventionists picking up older students who missed digraphs, English-language teachers building the sound system with newcomers, and tutors or home educators who want the wall reference and the practice in one place.

How to set it up in your classroom

Print the posters at full size for a sound wall and, if you can, print a second set at half size to live on a group table as a reference during small-group work. Print the game cards on cardstock and laminate the sets you will use weekly; each game fits in a single labeled zip bag. Introduce one digraph at a time and only add its cards to the games once the poster is on the wall — letting all seven loose at once is the usual reason a sorting activity turns into guessing.

How teachers use it

Typically the poster goes up on Monday during whole-class teaching, the sorting mats run at the literacy center from Tuesday, and bingo becomes the Friday review that also works as a quick assessment: you can hear from across the room which children are still choosing at random. Interventionists tend to skip the posters and pull only two contrasting sounds — sh against ch, or the two th sounds — because a forced choice between exactly two options is where the discrimination actually gets built.

Editions, printing & file format

• Editions: a full-color edition of the posters and cards plus an ink-saving edition for classroom printers.
• Format: a print-ready PDF sized for US Letter and A4, with the posters also supplied at half scale.
• Access: digital download delivered instantly after checkout, with lifetime access and re-downloads whenever you need them.

Please check the keyword pictures in the preview before ordering, so the vocabulary matches the English your students speak.

Frequently asked questions

What file will I get? A single PDF containing the posters, all four games and the recording sheets. It downloads immediately after checkout and stays available in your account.

Can I retype the keywords? No — the posters and cards are fixed artwork. If you need a different keyword for a sound, the blank recording sheets give you space to write your own.

How much printing is involved? Seven poster pages and roughly twenty game pages. The ink-saving edition cuts the color coverage substantially if you are printing at school.

Does the license cover my whole team? No. It covers one teacher and their own classroom; other teachers need their own copy and the file cannot go on a shared drive.

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