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Consonant Digraph Posters - Phonemes
Consonant digraph posters with sound, alternative spelling and examples.
Use these posters to help highlight the different consonant digraph and some of their spelling alternatives.
Consonant digraphs include:
/th/ (not voiced), /th/ (voiced), /ng/, /sh/, /ch/, /zh/, /wh/ (with breath)
Please note: These posters do not include all possible graphemes for each consonant digraph.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- ENe-6B
Recognises that there are different kinds of spoken texts with specific language features and shows an emerging awareness of some purposes for spoken language
- ENe-8B
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
- ENe-10C
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
- EN1-5A
Uses a variety of strategies, including knowledge of sight words and letter–sound correspondences, to spell familiar words
- EN2-5A
Uses a range of strategies, including knowledge of letter–sound correspondences and common letter patterns, to spell familiar and some unfamiliar words
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA226
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words
- VCELA158
Know how to use onset and rime to spell words where sounds map more directly onto letters
- VCELA168
Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
- VCELA263
Understand how to use letter–sound relationships and less common letter combinations to spell words
- VCELA181
Recognise short vowels, common long vowels and consonant digraphs, and consonant blends
- VCELA238
Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution
- VCELA204
Manipulate phonemes by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words
- VCELA296
Recognise homophones and know how to use context to identify correct spelling
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1438
Understand how to use knowledge of letters and sounds including onset and rime to spell wordsElaborationsrecognising the most common sound made by each letter of the alphabet, including consonants and short vowel sounds, for example ‘p-op’ ...
- ACELA1485
Understand how to use letter-sound relationships and less common letter patterns to spell wordsElaborationsusing sound and visual spelling strategies to explore less common letter patterns after a short vowel, for example words that end in ‘dgeÃ...
- ACELA1779
Understand how to use knowledge of letter patterns including double letters, spelling generalisations, morphemic word families, common prefixes and suffixes and word origins to spell more complex wordsElaborationsapplying generalisations for adding a...
- ACELA1439
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken wordsElaborationsrecognising and producing rhyming words when listening to rhyming stories or rhymes, for example ’funny’ and ’money...
- ACELA1457
Manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new wordsElaborationsrecognising words that start with a given sound, or end with a given sound, or have a given medial sound...
- ACELA1458
Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable wordsElaborationsusing knowledge of letters and sounds to write words with short vowels, for example ‘man’, ...
- ACELA1471
Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound wordsElaborationsusing knowledge of known words to spell unknown words, for example using the word ‘...
- ACELA1474
Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writingElaborationsblending and segmenting sounds in words,...
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Added school fonts.
Addition by Kristian Jan 6th, 2019'Unvoiced' was changed to 'voiced' on the feather /th/ digraph poster.
Fix by Holly (Teach Starter) Feb 5th, 2017
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Hi,
I really want to use this resource but am wondering if you are able to provide it with NSW font or at least with a comic sans a.
Thanks,
Sharon
Sharon Rogers · Mar 7th, 2019
Hi Sharon, thank you for reaching out to us. You can select your specific font by clicking on the School Font tab and selecting NSW. Then it will download in that font.
Royce (Teach Starter) · Mar 7th, 2019