Colouring NestDigraph Sort: sh, ch, th, wh
- Ages 6–7
- Easy
- 2 pages
- Worksheet
- Answer key
- PDF: Letter & A4
- Updated
Tip: download the PDF for Letter or A4 paper, print it at 100% and use a pencil or crayon. Tap "Show solution" to check your answer, or print it as an answer key.
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Four columns, one for each digraph: sh, ch, th and wh. Ten pictures to cut out, such as a shell, a chair, a thumb and a whale. Children say each picture name and listen to the first sound, which is made by two letters together, then glue it in its column. The number three is drawn as a big 3 for th. Page 2 shows the sorted pictures.
Also try: Fill In the Digraph · Beginning Sounds Worksheet · First Grade Sight Words
Tips for this phonics worksheet
- Remind your child: the two letters make one new sound.
- Say sh, ch, th and wh and notice how each one feels in your mouth.
- Say the picture name and listen to its very first sound.
Page 2 of the PDF is the answer key. Read the words aloud together first: digraphs are easier to hear than to see. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the first grade sight words and the easy word searches. See all phonics worksheets.
For teachers and parents
- What it practises
- Hearing beginning and ending sounds and matching them to letters, short vowels and blending and spelling CVC words; word families, digraphs sh, ch, th, wh and ck
- How to use it
- Say every picture name out loud and slowly, stretching the sounds. Tap one finger per sound before writing, then blend the sounds back into the word. Answers on page 2.
- Time
- About 10–15 minutes
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Printing tips
- Say each picture name out loud, slowly, stretching the sounds.
- Point to each letter as you say its sound, then blend the sounds into the word.
- Mark with page 2 and say the right answer together.
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