Vowel Digraphs
Read and spell words containing common vowel digraphs (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, oe, oo, oi, oy) including where a digraph can represent more than one sound
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A vowel digraph is two vowel letters that work together. ai can say /ā/ in rain, ee can say /ē/ in tree, and oa can say /ō/ in boat. The same digraph can have more than one sound: oo in book is not the same as oo in moon.
Spend about 15 minutes reading five supplied vowel-digraph words and sorting the two oo sounds.
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Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences
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Free UF page with consonant digraph and vowel introductions, including slides for vowel teams and digraphs. Adult chooses one mapping to teach; not every digraph is covered in one visit.
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Before you openTeach one digraph or vowel team from the page, then read three words that use it.
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UF Literacy Institute. “Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences.” University of Florida. External resource; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- Read words with vowel digraphs (e.g. 'tree', 'boat', 'rain', 'coin')
- Distinguish between different sounds for the same digraph (e.g. 'oo' in 'book' vs 'moon')
- Spell words using common vowel digraph patterns
“When your child reads a word like 'rain', 'boat', or 'moon', can they recognise the vowel pair that makes a special sound and read the whole word correctly?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Phonics & Word Reading
- Age range
- Ages 4–11
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