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Consonant Digraphs — Grade 1 Lesson Plan
Common Core RF.1.3c · 20–30 minutes · whole class or small group
🎯 Objective
Read and write words with ch, sh, th, wh, and ph Students practice through a printed warm-up, then reinforce with an interactive game at their own pace.
📄 Warm-up (5–10 min): printable worksheet
Print one per student. Work the first two items together, then let students finish independently.
- Consonant Digraphs — Introduction — Meet the five consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh, ph) and practise spotting them in common words.
- Consonant Digraphs — Sort by Digraph — Sort a bank of digraph words into the correct column and decide whether each digraph appears at the beginning or end of the word.
- Consonant Digraphs — Match Words & Pictures — Draw lines to match digraph words to their pictures and match word pairs that share the same digraph.
🎮 Practice (10 min): online game
Same skill, game form — students who finish the worksheet early start here. Progress saves locally; classrooms with class codes sync to the teacher dashboard.
✅ Wrap-up (5 min): quick check
Call out three words from the worksheet. Students show the answer with fingers (counts) or whiteboards (spellings). Anyone shaky returns to the game's earlier levels for review tomorrow.