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4th Grade The GH Sound Worksheets

11 printable 4th Grade phonics worksheets on The GH Sound. Every sheet has an answer key — 11 in all. 4 activity types: Build, Clue Crossword, Sort And Write, Word Hunt. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.

On these sheets: The Silent GH; gh, f or ff. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 28 to 34 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 4.

What is in this set: Sort And Write (4), Word Hunt (4), Build (2) and Clue Crossword (1).

Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 4, 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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Includes 4 activity types: Build, Clue Crossword, Sort And Write, Word Hunt.

Sort And Write 1: The Silent GH Free Worksheet 1 of 11
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Word Hunt 1: The Silent GH Free Worksheet 2 of 11
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Clue Crossword 1: The Silent GH Free Worksheet 3 of 11
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4th Grade phonics worksheet — Word Hunt 2: The Silent GH
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4th Grade phonics worksheet — Sort And Write 2: The Silent GH
Sort And Write 2: The Silent GH All Access
4th Grade phonics worksheet — The GH Sound. Build 1: gh, f or ff
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4th Grade phonics worksheet — Word Hunt 3: The Silent GH
Word Hunt 3: The Silent GH All Access
4th Grade phonics worksheet — Sort And Write 3: The Silent GH
Sort And Write 3: The Silent GH All Access
4th Grade phonics worksheet — Word Hunt 4: The Silent GH
Word Hunt 4: The Silent GH All Access
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All 11 worksheets in this set

  • Sort And Write 1: The Silent GH Free PDF
  • Word Hunt 1: The Silent GH Free PDF
  • Clue Crossword 1: The Silent GH Free PDF
  • Word Hunt 2: The Silent GH
  • Sort And Write 2: The Silent GH
  • Build 1: gh, f or ff
  • Word Hunt 3: The Silent GH
  • Sort And Write 3: The Silent GH
  • Word Hunt 4: The Silent GH
  • Sort And Write 4: The Silent GH
  • Build 2: gh, f or ff

Teaching The GH Sound

What it is

In most words gh is silent and the vowel in front of it does all the work: light, night, though, through, weight, eight, height. In a smaller group gh says /f/ instead: cough, rough, tough, enough, laugh.

When a child is ready

Teach it after igh is secure, once the child reads longer words without sounding out every letter.

If they struggle

Teach the silent group by family so whole chunks are read at once: -ight, -ought, -aught. Keep the /f/ words as their own short memorized list, because no rule predicts them and hunting for one spends the child's effort on five words.

This skill in other grades: Grade 1 · Grade 2 · Grade 3

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