3rd Grade Blends & Digraphs Worksheets
8 printable 3rd Grade phonics worksheets on Blends & Digraphs. Every sheet has an answer key — 8 in all. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: tch or ch; ph or f. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 2 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 3. Every grade is on one page: Digraph and Consonant Blend Worksheets.
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 3, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Teaching Blends & Digraphs
What it is
A blend is two consonants whose sounds are both heard (bl, st, tr); a digraph is two consonants that make one new sound (sh, ch, th, wh). Both appear at the start or end of words. In Grade 3 there are eight pages, all of one kind: the child chooses tch or ch, or ph or f, to finish words such as kitchen, stitches, nephew and elephant.
When a child is ready
Teach digraphs and blends after CVC words with all five short vowels are secure.
If they struggle
If the child drops a sound in a blend (reads stop as top), tap one finger per sound, then blend. If a digraph is read as two sounds, teach it as one letter-team with one keyword: sh, ship.
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